article_snippet.sent: DNA sequencing were the biggest of the Ice Age giants, roaming the frozen plains of the Northern Hemisphere.
article_snippet.sent: Genetic analysis of two woolly mammoth remains show that two woolly mammoth population became so small that two woolly mammoth had become chronically inbred.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers studied the structure of DNA from mammoths preserved in Wrangel Island to reproduce exact copies of 14 of the extinct animal’s genes.
article_snippet.sent: Instead, the researchers behind the genetic analysis say the researchers behind the genetic analysis findings have revealed new insights into the evolutionary history and demise of the woolly mammoths.
article_snippet.sent: the researchers behind the genetic analysis have published full DNA sequences of one mammoth found in Oimyakon, northeast Siberia – thought to be around 45,000 years old – and another from one of the last surviving mammoths found on Wrangel Island, north of Russia in the Arctic Ocean.
article_snippet.sent: Analysis showed that the parents of the mammoth found on Wrangel Island had been distant relatives, suggesting the population had been inbreeding.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Love Dalén, an associate professor of Bioinformatics and Genetics at the Swedish Museum of Natural History who took part in the study, said: ‘Dr Love Dalén, an associate professor of Bioinformatics and Genetics at the Swedish Museum of Natural History who took part in the study found that the genome from one of the world’s last mammoths displayed low genetic variation and a signature consistent with inbreeding.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers extracted DNA from the remains of two woolly mammoths who died 36,000 years apart .
article_snippet.sent: Scientists have been able to extract DNA from mammoth hair (above) and tusks found across Siberia .