Hunting for a Mammoth in the Yukon [Slide Show] [News]

Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 18:28 in Paleontology & Archaeology

This week, SciAm frequent contributor Charles Q. Choi spends his days in the Yukon on an expedition with researchers from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Their goal: to recover intact DNA from mammoths, which once roamed the tundra but went extinct some 11,000 years ago.Slide Show: Mammoth Excavation Photos [More]

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