Scientists have taken a significant step toward understanding mammoths by sequencing the world's oldest DNA. The DNA was sequenced from molars of three different mammoths. The youngest tooth is nearly 500,000-800,000 years old and the remaining are 1 million-1.2 million years old. Until now, the oldest DNA sequenced by scientists belonged to a horse, believed to have lived 560,000-780,000 years ago. Here's more.

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