Ancient DNA Suggests Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth More Recently Than Thought [SciTechDaily, January 2022]

Title:

Ancient DNA Suggests Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth More Recently Than Thought

 

By:

Tyler J. Murchie, McMaster University

 

Published:

SciTechDaily, 31 January 2022

https://scitechdaily.com/ancient-dna-suggests-woolly-mammoths-roamed-the-earth-more-recently-than-thought/

 

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.

 

Short Article - ‘Avalanche’ of spider-paper retractions shakes behavioural-ecology community: Allegations of fabricated data have prompted a university investigation and some soul-searching

Title:
‘Avalanche’ of spider-paper retractions shakes behavioural-ecology community

Author:
Giuliana Viglione

Published:
Nature, 7 February 2020

From the article:
"A complex web is unravelling in the field of spider research. On 5 February, McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, confirmed that it was investigating allegations that behavioural ecologist Jonathan Pruitt fabricated data in at least 17 papers on which he was a co-author.

To read this article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00287-y