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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.
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A gold miner sank his shovel into the sands of the Klondike and found himself face to face with a perfectly preserved baby woolly mammoth.

The frozen wilderness of Canada’s Yukon Territory has given us a glimpse into Earth’s forgotten past. A miner digging for gold turned over his shovel only to come face-to-face with the well-preserved ...
NBC Bay Area

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...