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Many consider 39,000-year-old Yuka to be one of the best-preserved woolly mammoths discovered to date. Tusk hunters unearthed Yuka in the northern Siberian permafrost in 2010, and it has been on display in frozen conditions at the Yakutsk State Museum in Moscow since 2014.
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RNA from one of the best-preserved woolly mammoths broke the record for oldest RNA ever found, pushing the limit of how long these famously labile molecules can last.

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