Siberia
DNA from 14,000-year-old tooth offers oldest known link between Native Americans and southern Siberia
A 14,000-year-old genome scraped from a prehistoric tooth found in southern Siberia is now the oldest known connection linking living ...
Studies of ancient DNA offer new insights into human migration between Siberia and North America
There is plenty of evidence to suggest that humans migrated to the North American continent via Beringia, a land mass ...
Is resurrecting the woolly mammoth an ‘unnecessary show of scientific hubris’?
Bringing an extinct species back to life was once firmly in the realm of science fiction, but as genetic engineering ...
Who were the Denisovans? This Siberian cave could offer answers
Samantha Brown didn’t have high hopes when she opened the ziplock bag containing some 700 shards of bone. It would ...
‘Incredibly rare’ extinct Siberian horse to be cloned
Scientists recently extracted an almost perfectly preserved prehistoric baby horse from the permafrost of Siberia’s “Mouth of Hell” crater in Yakutia. At ...