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    This document discusses how ancient DNA found in sediment samples could provide more accurate estimates of when mammoths and other ice age creatures went extinct. Paleontologists have found that the most recent ancient DNA evidence may come from bones buried in sediment rather than directly from living large animals. This genetic evidence could shift estimates of extinction times by thousands of years and help scientists better understand what caused these extinctions, such as human activity, climate change, or other factors. While fossils provide information about long-extinct species, the youngest fossil is unlikely to be the last individual of a species. Ancient DNA preserved in sediment samples may help address this challenge and improve understanding of extinction timing.

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    This document discusses how ancient DNA found in sediment samples could provide more accurate estimates of when mammoths and other ice age creatures went extinct. Paleontologists have found that the most recent ancient DNA evidence may come from bones buried in sediment rather than directly from living large animals. This genetic evidence could shift estimates of extinction times by thousands of years and help scientists better understand what caused these extinctions, such as human activity, climate change, or other factors. While fossils provide information about long-extinct species, the youngest fossil is unlikely to be the last individual of a species. Ancient DNA preserved in sediment samples may help address this challenge and improve understanding of extinction timing.

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    Ancient DNA in Sediment Samples

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    This document discusses how ancient DNA found in sediment samples could provide more accurate estimates of when mammoths and other ice age creatures went extinct. Paleontologists have found that the most recent ancient DNA evidence may come from bones buried in sediment rather than directly from living large animals. This genetic evidence could shift estimates of extinction times by thousands of years and help scientists better understand what caused these extinctions, such as human activity, climate change, or other factors. While fossils provide information about long-extinct species, the youngest fossil is unlikely to be the last individual of a species. Ancient DNA preserved in sediment samples may help address this challenge and improve understanding of extinction timing.

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    ancient DNA in sediment samples

    This means that the most recent ancient DNA in sediment samples may have come from such
    bones rather than living large animals such as mammoths or woolly rhinos. Paleontologists
    Joshua Miller of the University of Cincinnati and Carl Simpson of the University of Colorado
    Boulder say this genetic evidence-based study could shift estimates of when these animals
    went extinct by thousands of years from now. said.

    When and why mammoths and other Ice Age creatures became extinct remains a perennial
    mystery. Dating when these animals went extinct could help us figure out what caused them —
    humans, warming climates, a combination of both, or something else entirely (SN:
    11/13/18; SN:
    08/13/20).

    However, it is not easy to know when a species disappeared from its range or the Earth. Fossils
    are useful for long-extinct animals, but it would be a great coincidence if the youngest fossil ever
    found of an extinct species was also the last living individual.

    Where fossils were abandoned, DNA began to take over. Over the last two decades,
    environmental DNA (eDNA) has become a way to find out which organisms live or inhabit a
    particular place (SN:
    18.1.22).

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