Two palaeogeneticists traveling to Northern Yukon's wilderness in search of extremely old DNA 🧊🧬🧪
A mysterious permafrost mummy hidden in the collections 🦴🕵️
An Agatha Christie book 📖
@gog1693.bsky.social behind-the-scenes story on his paper has EVERYTHING!
Paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Centre for Palaeogenetics
As promised, what follows is a behind-the-scenes story of how we came across this permafrost-mummified tissue and tried to determine which species it belonged to.