wooly mammoth
Jun 11 2008, Nick

Scientists, lead by Stephan C. Schuster of Penn State University, extracted DNA from frozen mammoth hair samples found throughout a large swath of northern Siberia, in an attempt to paint a new picture of the ancient and long lost animals.

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