The DNA comes from the molars of three mammoth specimens from the Early and Middle Pleistocene period from northeast Siberia, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

In a history-making paper, published in the journal Nature, the team announce their retrieval of DNA from mammoth specimens over a million years old -- demolishing the record for the oldest ...

But a lot of its DNA carried on as part of the Columbia mammoth genome. Apparently, at some point after the Krestovka, the lineage it was on interbred with the ancestors of the woolly mammoths.

Love Dalén and Patrícia Pečnerová with a mammoth tusk on Wrangel Island. Photo: Gleb Danilov. Because the fossils sampled for this research are older than the previous oldest DNA on record ...

The oldest DNA ever sequenced – more than 1 million years – has been extracted from three mammoth teeth that had been excavated from Siberian permafrost in the 1970s and have revealed a ...

In a new study, we show mammoth DNA as old as 1.2 million years can be recovered from remains found in permafrost deposits. By sequencing this DNA—studying the make up of its genetic information—we ...

What the new DNA finding does do, however, is give a better picture of the evolution of the mammoth. Having additional genetic material from different regions and moments in time helps scientists ...

Mammoths and other giant creatures of the Ice Age such as woolly rhinos survived longer than scientists thought, coexisting with humans for tens of thousands of years before they vanished for good ...

A tooth from a mammoth that roamed the Siberian steppe more than a million years ago has yielded the world’s oldest DNA sequence. It’s the first time that DNA has been recovered from animal ...

AMSTERDAM -- This wild meatball meal has been more than 4,000 years in the making. A meatball made of extinct mammoth DNA was unveiled at an Amsterdam science museum on Tuesday by Australian ...

The wooly mammoth is an extinct species of elephant that thrive during the Pleistocene ice ages. Larger than modern elephants. Wooly mammoths could grow to be about 10-12 ft tall and weigh between ...