DNA study solves puzzle of elephants’ evolution

“Using DNA extracted from a woolly mammoth specimen recovered from permafrost in Siberia, a team of scientists from Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States determined the sequence of 5,024 base pairs of mitochondrial DNA. Although that represents only about a third of the animal?s total mitochondrial DNA, it was far beyond the previous record of 1,000 base pairs sequenced for a Pleistocene animal.” – The Columbus Dispatch