The project to examine the 200,000-year-old teeth has 'international significance', an expert says.
Ipswich's collection comprises of finds from local sites across Suffolk, including the Stoke and Maidenhall areas of Ipswich, Brundon, Stutton and Harkstead.Image source,Older DNA has been found in mammoth teeth - up to about one million years old - but that was found in north-east Siberia where permafrost preserved it.
Finding DNA in what is called temperate conditions - like the ones in Ipswich's collection - could be ground-breaking for future research, Dr Jackson said. "On an international scale it will be the oldest mammoth DNA found of this age across Europe and in Britain," he added. "It's one of the most exciting projects I have worked on, it really has international significance and a huge amount of potential if we do find it."Researchers hope to find DNA in the teeth to help uncover "evolutionary history of the mammoth"
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