Scientists Unveil Mastodon Family Tree

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Scientists Unveil Mastodon Family Tree

Jul 26, 2007

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome of the extinct mastodon, an ancestor of elephants that diverged about 26 million years ago.

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