A fragment of skin trapped in permafrost for 52,000 years has just given us a marvelous world first. Left by a wooly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), the material has delivered unto us not just a ...

"It's exciting to see that 3D architecture can be preserved in ancient samples. This will help move toward a complete de novo assembled mammoth genome, which could reveal features of the genome that ...

Scientists have assembled the most complete 3D reconstruction of the woolly mammoth genome, thanks to an incredibly well-preserved specimen that was “freeze-dried” straight after death. With its DNA ...

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Nature’s impeccable preservation of the creatures indicates that intact pieces of the past may still be out there. A 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth was impeccably freeze-dried by nature, its swatches ...

Scientists have recreated the three-dimensional structure of the woolly mammoth's genetic blueprint. The accomplishment, described Thursday in the journal Cell, marks what is believed to be the first ...

Valerii Plotnikov (left) from the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha, Yakutsk, Russia, and Daniel Fisher of the University of Michigan examine a woolly mammoth unearthed during a 2018 ...