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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP05 May 2022 9:35 p.m. PST

… MAMMOTH EXTINCTION


"IN 2010, small cores of permafrost sediments were collected by a team at the University of Alberta from gold mines in the Klondike region of central Yukon. They had remained in cold storage until paleogeneticists at the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre applied new genomics techniques to better understand the global extinction of megafauna that had culminated in North America some 12,700 years ago.

These tiny sediment samples contain an immense wealth of ancient environmental DNA from innumerable plants and animals that lived in those environments over millennia. These genetic microfossils originate from all components of an ecosystem — including bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals — and serve as a time capsule of long-lost ecosystems, such as the mammoth-steppe, which disappeared around 13,000 years ago…"

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paul liddle06 May 2022 6:48 a.m. PST

It just goes to show, in fact there could be anything living in next doors garden. maybe not a mammoth but a woolly rhino could well be hiding in there!.

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP06 May 2022 3:13 p.m. PST

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