Woolly mammoth genome could shed light on extinctions
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 15:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In what may be a first for a long-extinct non-human animal -- and certainly for an extinct creature of such stature -- scientists have assembled the complete genome of the woolly mammoth, gaining insight into why the last surviving population of the great beasts, marooned on an Arctic island off...