SCIENTISTS REPORT DNA SEQUENCING OF EXTINCT MAMMOTH FROM PLEISTOCENE EPOCH

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | February 7, 2006 | Copyright

The University of Massachusetts Medical School issued the following press release: Some 10,000 years after the last of their kind wandered the North American and Eurasian wilderness, woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) remain a fascinating subject of study for scientists, with implications for understanding the evolutionary origins of present day mammals. Mammoths and elephants belong to one of the most ancient mammalian groups and various recent studies have debated the genetic relationships between them. Now, scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Russian ...

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