Friday 3 March 2017

Mammoths had translucent coats and bad sniffers pre-extinction

Wooly mammoths had tusks that could reach 15 feet (5 meters) in length

While there has been some talk of bringing the wooly mammoth back to life à la Jurassic Park, it turns out that should such a project be undertaken, scientists would need to be careful with the genetic material they start with. It turns out that just before they went extinct, the massive herbivores had what new research is calling a "genomic meltdown."

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