Even though scientists haven’t yet cobbled together the full
genome of the woolly mammoth, the information they’ve gathered so far — enough
to assemble about 70 percent of the extinct creature’s nuclear DNA — reveals
that the tundra-strolling behemoths were very closely related to modern
elephants.
HAIRY DATA Using well-preserved specimens of hair from a variety of extinct woolly mammoths, researchers have assembled about 70 percent of the creature’s nuclear genome.
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