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Mastodons were found in the territory of Greenland 2 million years ago
A mastodon has been found buried in the Kap Kbenhavn Formation, Sweden, according to a team of researchers. The scientists sequenced ancient DNA from 116 hunter-gatherers who living in Europe and western Asia between 35,000 and 5,000 years ago, and analysed previously sequenced genomes from hundreds more. The team obtained partial genomes from mammoth remains,…
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Mastodons were a part of the ancient culture of Greenland 2 million years ago.
Svante Pbo, a scientist who spent decades trying to extract DNA from 40,000-year-old bones and ultimately unveiled the Neanderthal genome in 2010, has won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dalén Pbo’s team had obtained partial genomes of a million-year-old mammoth from Siberia in 2021. Ancient DNA suffers from chemical damage and tends…