Meet the Mulleted, Freeze-Dried Woolly Mammoth that Yielded the First Ever Fossilized Chromosomes
Briefly

This advance, published in Cell, let a transatlantic research team piece together the mammoth's genome with unprecedented accuracy, as well as detect traces of past gene activity in the creature's cells.
But where previous efforts recovered shuffled pages from the book of life, the current one captures an ordered stack with dog-eared corners.
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