Jawbone (IMAGE)

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Jawbone

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The subfossil jawbone of a polar bear that lived 115,000 to 130,000 years ago in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. A genomic study includes an analysis of DNA extracted from a tooth attached to this jawbone, which is now housed at the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo.

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Credit: Photo by Karsten Sund, Natural History Museum (NHM), University of Oslo

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