The illustration represents a reconstruction of the steppe mammoths that preceded the woolly mammoth, based on the genetic knowledge we now have from the Adycha mammoth. (Image by Beth Zaiken / CPG) ...

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 fossil hunter found a 450,000-year-old mammoth tusk while on a recent visit to a local quarry. Jamie Jordan, 33, was at a quarry in Cambridgeshire, near Peterborough, England, roughly 75 miles north ...

Evidence of steppe mammoths, gigantic elk, brown bears, and other ice age animals have been pulled from an English quarry, in what experts are calling a significant discovery. “Finding mammoth bones ...

Scientists have made one mammoth discovery – literally. The oldest DNA ever sequenced – more than 1 million years – has been extracted from three mammoth teeth that had been excavated from Siberian ...

"This DNA is incredibly old. The samples are a thousand times older than Viking remains." The mammoth was not actually a woolly mammoth: Around one million years ago there were no woolly mammoths. The ...

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 ...

The ancient genomes are thought to be between 1.3 million and 1.65 million years old, a recent study found Digital News Writer, PEOPLE Scientists have recovered the world's oldest DNA sequence from a ...

An international team of scientists has sequenced DNA from mammoth teeth that is at least a million years old, if not older. This research, published today in Nature, not only provides exciting new ...

Sequencing mammoth DNA has already helped scientists map out how these Ice Age giants evolved, migrated, and survived. But there's a hidden layer of history still waiting to be decoded – the microbes ...

An amateur fossil hunter made a mammoth of a discovery. Chris Bien, 56, was taking a walk on a beach in Holland-on-Sea, Essex, England when she spotted a wavy line in the gravel near the water and ...