Ancient rhino tooth revives hope of bringing back lost species
Genetic information has been extracted from a 1.7-million-year-old rhino tooth, raising hopes that crucial data about extinct animals could be retrieved, or lost species revived.
The discovery is one million years older than the oldest DNA sequenced, from a 700,000-year-old horse, and is the earliest yet recorded...
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