[Rockhounds] First million-year-old DNA extracted from Siberian mammoth teeth

[Paul]

Scientists analyse ‘world’s oldest DNA’ recovered
from mammoth remains up to 1.2 million years old
By April Roach, Evening Standard, February 17, 2021
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mammoth-remains-worlds-oldest-dna-b920161.html

First million-year-old DNA extracted from Siberian mammoth teeth
By Michael Marshall, New Scientist, February 2021
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2268417-first-million-year-old-dna-extracted-from-siberian-mammoth-teeth/#ixzz6mt2XyYOt

The paper is:

van der Valk, T., Pečnerová, P., Díez-del-Molino,
D. et al. Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the
genomic history of mammoths. Nature (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03224-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03224-9

Yours,

Paul H.