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Cultured Meat Startup

If meat-eating humans already tend to be on the fence about lab-cultivated meats, this one’s sure to complicate their feelings even further. An Australian startup has produced what it says is the world’s first woolly mammoth meatball by combining mammoth DNA sequences with existing species’ stem cells. The startup is …

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Arctic Woolly Mammoth

Scientists have examined isotopes collected from the tusk of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) that lived in Alaska approximately 17,100 years ago, during the latest Ice Age, to elucidate its movements and diet; this included its time — likely with a herd — as an infant and juvenile, then as …

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Old Mammoth DNA

An international team of scientists has sequenced and analyzed DNA from three mammoth specimens, two of which are more than one million years old. The results show that two distinct mammoth lineages were present in eastern Siberia during the Early Pleistocene; one of these lineages gave rise to the woolly …

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Mammoth Tusk in Siberia

The 13,000-year-old partial tusk of an adult mammoth found in western Siberia has four images of two-humped camels engraved on it. The 13,000-year-old engraved mammoth tusk from the Tom River, western Siberia. Image credit: Esin et al, doi: 10.1016/j.ara.2020.100180. The engraved tusk was found in 1988 at a locality known …

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