An illustration of a Colombian mammoth

How Mexican scientists uncovered the story of the first mammoths in the Americas

When I saw that a team of Mexican scientists had published the first DNA studies on tropical mammoths in Science, I knew I had to talk to them. The fossils alone are incredible, and their work marks a new era for ancient genomic studies in Mexico.

Check out my story for Mexico News Daily below:

And if you want to dig even deeper, here is the original scientific article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt9651.