New paper alert 🚨
A study led by #CPGSthlm researchers found DNA from a bear in 9.6k year old lake sediments. This potentially rewrites the history of brown bears in Scandinavia! 🧬🐻🐾🏔️🧊
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OA article 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
After the last ice age, species migrated into a newly deglaciated Scandinavia. Brown
bear recolonization is thought to have occurred from two direc...
Very excited to share our study of an ancient environmental genome extracted from lake sediment! It originates from a brown bear that lived around 9,600 years ago close to the last ice-sheet remains in northern Sweden, and has an unexpected mitochondrial haplogroup. 1/7 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
After the last ice age, species migrated into a newly deglaciated Scandinavia. Brown
bear recolonization is thought to have occurred from two direc...
