Observatory: DNA Shifts Timeline for Mammoths’ Exit

Monday, December 21, 2009 - 14:07 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Analysis of DNA in sediment from Alaska suggests that overhunting by early man was not solely responsible for the extinction of woolly mammoths and horses, researchers said.

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