A study published in Cell on September 2nd reported the recovery of the oldest host‑associated microbial DNA ever sequenced from mammoth remains, pushing the study of microbial DNA beyond a million ...

A local resident stumbled upon the remains of the 19,700-year-old beast. Its record-breaking horn offers new insights into ...

DNA dating back over one million years has been identified in the woolly mammoth remains. Scientists who discovered some of the world's oldest microbial DNA also identified for the first time bacteria ...

Scientists have discovered the DNA of ancient microbes inside of the remains of woolly and steppe mammoths. This microbial DNA, which may be one million years old or more, may be among the oldest DNA ...

A jogger was left 'jumping for joy' after finding a rare 80,000-year-old baby mammoth tooth while out on a beach morning run. Lucy Parkes, who regularly hunts for fossils along the beach between ...

Among all this splitting, Lister and collaborators hypothesized, around 200,000 years ago the woolly mammoth (M. primigenius) descended from a population of the larger steppe mammoth (usually called M ...

Lucy Parkes discovered the mammoth tooth on the beach between Mundesley and Overstrand in Norfolk. (Lucy Parkes via SWNS) By Amy Mackrill A jogger was left 'jumping for joy' after finding a rare ...