Researchers have developed a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil, pulling the genomes of hundreds of animals and thousands of plants -- many of them long extinct -- from less than a gram of ...

Researchers have used a new method to extract DNA of Neanderthals from the soil of caves they inhabited to reveal how they came back from near extinction at least twice before finally disappearing ...

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You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. If you've ever held a gram of soil, odds are you had more than 10,000 species at your fingertips. You ...