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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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Baby mammoth bones were whales, and the mix-up shocked scientists

For decades, a set of “baby mammoth” bones in an Alaska museum promised to rewrite the story of when these Ice Age giants finally disappeared. The remains appeared so young that they hinted mammoths ...