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Did inbreeding cause the woolly mammoth’s extinction? Our research suggests it was more sudden than...
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoishibashi seiichi/Shutterstock In science, we usually share our successes and ignore the less...
Last surviving woolly mammoths were inbred but not doomed to extinction – study
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoThe last surviving woolly mammoths on Earth were inbred but not to the extent that it can explain...
What Killed the Last Woolly Mammoths? Scientists Say It Wasn't Inbreeding
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 days agoRoughly 10,000 years ago, a small group of woolly mammoths found themselves stuck on an island off...
World’s last woolly mammoths were inbred
Cosmos· 5 days agoA new genomic analysis shows the last surviving population of woolly mammoths were inbred, but this low genetic diversity cannot explain their mysterious...
The Last Stand of the Woolly Mammoths
New York Times· 5 days agoStarting roughly 15,000 years ago, the giant animals began to vanish from their vast range until they survived on only a few islands. When the Wrangel...
A mummified 44,000-year-old wolf is so perfectly preserved its stomach could contain remnants of its...
Business Insider via Yahoo Canada News· 1 day agoStudying the animal's genome will help reveal where it fits into the canine family tree. After...
How did woolly mammoths go extinct? One study has an answer
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 4 days agoScientists now believe some of the last woolly mammoths on Earth may have died out due to a sudden event, a departure from previous hypotheses about their extinction. About ...
Genome study deepens mystery of what doomed Earth's last mammoths
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoAbout 4,000 years ago, the last of Earth's woolly mammoths died out on a lonely Arctic Ocean island...
One of the world’s largest T. rex skeletons just landed in Melbourne
Cosmos· 2 days agoFor the first time, Melbourne is hosting a fully articulated skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex. The...
Probing Microbial Dark Matter: Largest-Ever Discovery Effort Uncovers 800,000 New Antibiotic...
SciTechDaily· 5 days agoResearchers at Penn Medicine analyzed genomic data to discover new antibiotics within the global...
