New paper 🧵
A team co-led by #cpgsthlm 's researcher @jcchacond.bsky.social has analysed DNA from a large number of mammoths across a million-year timescale 🦣🧬
The findings include the discovery and analysis of the oldest known woolly #mammoth in North America!
👉 https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42/4/msaf065/8107989
A team co-led by #cpgsthlm 's researcher @jcchacond.bsky.social has analysed DNA from a large number of mammoths across a million-year timescale 🦣🧬
The findings include the discovery and analysis of the oldest known woolly #mammoth in North America!
👉 https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42/4/msaf065/8107989
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Of them, 11 date back to the Early and Middle Pleistocene geological periods, spanning from ~1.3 million to ~125 thousand years ago.