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A Mammoth Undertaking

Researchers conducted DNA extractions from 96 bone, tooth and ivory specimens, enabling them to analyze 41 individual mammoths from Europe, Asia and North America. The specimens were originally found across a wide swath of eastern Russia and Alaska, an area known as Beringia because it was connected by a land bridge during the Ice Age.

Researchers conducted DNA extractions from 96 bone, tooth and ivory specimens, enabling them to analyze 41 individual mammoths from Europe, Asia and North America. The specimens were originally found across a wide swath of eastern Russia and Alaska, an area known as Beringia because it was connected by a land bridge during the Ice Age.

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