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World's oldest-ever DNA recovered from teeth of frozen woolly mammoth
extracted from animal remains over a million years old.The DNA belonged to two mammoths that lived around 1.2 million years ago.When analysed, the DNA has revealed new details about the evolution of these extraordinary beasts.While they’re usually seen as shaggy-haired Ice Age creatures, they originally emerged in South Africa some five million years ago."It was originally a tropical species," says Love Dalén at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm, Sweden.As the creatures migrated across Eurasia and North America they split into a number of distinct species.Based on the DNA extracted from the Siberian excavations, there was more than one type roaming the steppes of Siberia a million years ago."Instead of there being one species of
