Some Mammoths Could Have Been Blonds
From Times Wire Reports
Mammoths may have come in various colors, perhaps even red and blond, research indicates.
Researchers in Germany were able to extract DNA from a 43,000-year-old mammoth bone. They reported in Friday’s issue of Science that the mammoth DNA included the gene Mc1r, which codes for a protein that affects hair color in mammals.
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