“This is a new type of fossil, and its scale dwarfs that of individual ancient DNA fragments...".An international team of scientists have discovered ancient fossil chromosomes preserved in a glass-like state in the skin of a 52,000 year old female woolly mammoth, revealing a treasure trove of genetic data on the colossal mammal, which some are working to bring back from extinction.“We’ve known that tiny fragments ...
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