The never-before-seen biological snapshot provides insight into the young mammoth's final moments, expanding our knowledge of creatures that went extinct tens of thousands of years ago.
The oldest genetic remains in history were discovered in the preserved tissues of a young mammoth, a species that became extinct almost forty thousand years ago. The finding was recently published in the scientific journal Cell and is considered a breakthrough in the field of paleogenetics.
The RNA molecules that were discovered shed new light on the life of the mammoth, known as Yuka, and on the biological p