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Follow this thread for an almost unbelievable story, hiding in the SI of this paper:
cell.com/current-biolog…

Ten years ago, a roughly 14,000 year old frozen #dog or #wolf #puppy was found in Russia. It's been named Tumat.

Subsequently, an autopsy of Tumat was conducted (1/n).
Inside the puppy's stomach, @MhsSindging, Sergey Fedorov & others found a hairy piece of tissue.

The mystery tissue from Tumat's tummy was sent to #CpgSthlm, where @nibbledtodeath extracted DNA to identify the species that the tissue belonged to.

It came from... (2/n).
... a WOOLLY RHINOCEROS!

We subsequently sequenced a lot more DNA from it, and generated a complete mitochondrial genome.

This mitochondrial genome is now featured in the @CurrentBiology paper by @EdanaLord et al. (link above).

To be sure of it's age, we also... (3/n)
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