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Baby Mammoth Was Preserved In Permafrost For 40,000, And It’s Allowed Researchers To Extract The Oldest Ever RNA

A bad day for a baby mammoth is a good day for scientists.
ScienceAlert on MSN

'Mammoth' bones kept in a museum for 70 years turn out to be an entirely different animal

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal. Archaeologist Otto Geist came across the bones – two ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia

Discovery of 50,000-year-old baby mammoth a big boon to researchers

Michil Yakovlev, Mammoth Museum at the Russian North-Eastern Federal University telegram channel via AP A baby mammoth that lay almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years in the now-melting ...
KHQ

Woman finds rare baby mammoth tooth on morning beach run

A jogger was left 'jumping for joy' after finding a rare 80,000-year-old baby mammoth tooth while out on a beach morning run. Lucy Parkes, who regularly hunts for fossils along the beach between ...
Billings Gazette

Baby mammoth preserved for 50,000 years is unveiled in Russia's Siberia

MOSCOW — The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost were unveiled to the public by researchers, who call it the best-preserved mammoth body ever found, in Russia's ...