Title:
Ancient DNA Suggests Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth More Recently Than Thought
By:
Tyler J. Murchie, McMaster University
Published:
SciTechDaily, 31 January 2022
From the article:
In 2010, small cores of permafrost sediments were collected by a team at the University of Alberta from gold mines in the Klondike region of central Yukon. They had remained in cold storage until paleogeneticists at the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre applied new genomics techniques to better understand the global extinction of megafauna that had culminated in North America some 12,700 years ago.