{"id":752761,"date":"2023-04-07T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=752761"},"modified":"2023-04-07T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T15:00:02","slug":"woolly-mammoths-evolved-smaller-ears-and-woolier-coats-over-the-700000-years-that-they-roamed-the-siberian-steppes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=752761","title":{"rendered":"Woolly mammoths evolved smaller ears and woolier coats over the 700,000 years that they roamed the Siberian steppes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers compared the genomes of woolly mammoths with modern day elephants to find out what made woolly mammoths unique, both as individuals and as a species. The investigators report April 7 in the journal Current Biology that many of the woolly mammoth&#8217;s trademark features\u2014including their woolly coats and large fat deposits\u2014were already genetically encoded in the earliest woolly mammoths, but these and other traits became more defined over the species&#8217; 700,000+ year existence. They also identified a gene with several mutations that may have been responsible for the woolly mammoth&#8217;s miniscule ears.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-04-woolly-mammoths-evolved-smaller-ears.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Woolly mammoths evolved smaller ears and woolier coats over the 700,000 years that they roamed the Siberian steppes<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers compared the genomes of woolly mammoths with modern day elephants to find out what made woolly mammoths unique, both as individuals and as a species. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}