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Frozen squirrel poop from Yukon is a treasure trove of woolly mammoth, horse DNA
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Scientists have extracted and sequenced ancient DNA from permafrost-preserved squirrel droppings in the Yukon to reconstruct genomes of extinct and extant animals, including woolly mammoths and horses, dating back up to 700,000 years.
Frozen squirrel poop from Yukon is a treasure trove of woolly mammoth, horse DNA
Scientists have reconstructed genomes of woolly mammoths, horses, steppe bison and ground squirrels that roamed the grasslands of the Canadian Arctic as far back as 700,000 years ago using DNA found in frozen squirrel poop from the Yukon.
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