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Scientists have successfully revived the extinct dire wolf using ancient DNA, and groundbreaking cloning techniques
The project marks the first-ever de-extinction of a species, opening new possibilities for reversing biodiversity loss
Three healthy dire wolf pups—Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi—were born through surrogate dogs
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The researchers compared the DNA sequences of 35 modern people living on islands off the coast of New Guinea with DNA drawn from two early human species: Denisovans, whose remains were found in Siberia, and Neanderthals, first discovered in Germany.
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It turns out the plague was plaguing humans far earlier than previously believed.New research using ancient DNA has revealed that plague has been endemic in human populations for more than twice as long as previously thought and that the ancestral plague would have been predominantly spread by human-to-human contact, until genetic mutations allowed Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis), the bacteria that causes plague, to survive in the gut of fleas.
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