DNA Proves Mammoths Mated Beyond Species Boundaries
Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 13:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Several species of mammoth are thought to have roamed across the North American continent. A new study in the open-access journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, provides DNA evidence to show that these mammoths, which should only mate within their species boundaries, were in fact likely to be interbreeding.