From 1.1M years ago to Wrangel’s last mammoths: microbes that endured through time
Research from steppe mammoths to the last woolly mammoths shows microbial lineages coexisted across hundreds of thousands of years and wide regions until their extinction 4,000 years ago.
Mammoth foot found in Siberia, Russia.(photo credit: Love Dalén)ByMAITAL ROZENBOIM