All Articles Tagged As: woolly mammoth

Woolly-mammoth gene study changes extinction theory (6/11/2008)

A large genetic study of the extinct woolly mammoth has revealed that the species was not one large homogenous group, as scientists previously had assumed, and that it did not have much genetic diversity. ...> Full Article

Hair untangles woolly mammoth puzzle (9/28/2007)

Researchers discovered that hair shafts provide an ideal source of ancient DNA -- a better source than bones and muscle for studying the genome sequences of extinct animals. Their research achievement includes the sequencing of entire mitochondrial genomes from 10 individual woolly mammoths. ...> Full Article

International Team Studying Remarkably Well-Preserved Baby Siberian Mammoth (7/14/2007)

University of Michigan paleontologist Daniel Fisher just returned from Siberia where he spent a week as part of a six-member international team that examined the frozen, nearly intact remains of a 4-month-old female woolly mammoth. ...> Full Article