article_snippet.sent: Scientists in Italy have extracted the oldest ever DNA sample to be taken from a Neanderthal.
article_snippet.sent: An earlier study of the head and part of a shoulder of suggested the skeleton belong to a Neanderthal.
article_snippet.sent: The current project has been ongoing for six years with researchers taking a tiny part of shoulder bone and analysing shoulder bone in the lab.
article_snippet.sent: An earlier study of the head and part of a shoulder of suggested the skeleton belong to a Neanderthal.
article_snippet.sent: Analysis revealed that the calcite on skull was formed 172,000 to 130,000 years ago, during a period when ice sheets were expanding significantly from out of Antarctica and Greenland.
article_snippet.sent: The team say samples of DNA have also been retrieved from the sample, and because of the age, represent the oldest such samples ever recovered from Neanderthal remains.
highlights_snippet.sent: Skeleton's calcium formations suggest Skeleton is 128,000 to 187,000 years old .
  