Elephants are plagued by the same deadly bacteria that infected mammoths, genetic experts have found. A study of mammoth ...

Scientists have uncovered microbial DNA preserved in mammoth remains dating back more than one million years, revealing the oldest host-associated microbial DNA ever recovered. By sequencing nearly ...

An international team led by researchers at the Center for Paleogenetics, has uncovered microbial DNA preserved in woolly and steppe mammoth remains dating back more than one million years. The ...

Long before global warming was the biggest environmental issue, the planet was in the opposite kind of funk — an ice age lasting around 2.6 million years. During this time, starting about 700,000 ...

Scientists found million-year-old microbial DNA in mammoths, revealing ancient infections and host-microbe relationships.

Using metagenomic screening — a technique for sequencing genetic material in samples that contain genomes from a mixture of ...

Scientists have made a remarkable discovery hidden within the remains of mammoths that roamed Earth more than a million years ...

The researchers analyzed 483 mammoth remains, mostly molars but also tusks and bones. The oldest samples are 1.1 million years old and belonged to a steppe mammoth — a species that later gave rise to ...

Genetic-sequencing techniques have uncovered the oldest host-associated microbial DNA ever recorded — inside samples of teeth and bones from woolly and steppe mammoths.