Madagascar's 'founding mothers' found

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 20:30 in Biology & Nature

PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand, March 21 (UPI) -- Though Madagascar is just 250 miles off Africa's coast, researchers say DNA analysis suggests its first settlers may have been from Indonesia, 5,000 miles away.

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