Uploaded May 2015 | Updated September 2026, 34 minutes ago
Each week (even while traveling in Spain), Tom chooses an article from the New York Times science section and translates it into a rap verse. This week, a tale of woolly mammoth genetics. Complete genomes from two mammoth individuals were recently sequenced, giving scientists clues to their decline and isolation on an island North of the Siberian mainland, and bringing us one step closer to the possibility of mammoth “De-extinction”
Check out "Last Mammoths Spent Final Years on Solitary Island" by Nicholas Bakalar: goo.gl/aboCbI
The study, by Love Dalen, from the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and colleagues: goo.gl/P5meM7
A Vice article on revivalism and the possibility of Mammoth de-extinction: goo.gl/cvR8yT
Original beat by @ChaseMooreMusic
Each week (even while traveling in Spain), Tom chooses an article from the New York Times science section and translates it into a rap verse. This week, a tale of woolly mammoth genetics. Complete genomes from two mammoth individuals were recently sequenced, giving scientists clues to their decline and isolation on an island North of the Siberian mainland, and bringing us one step closer to the possibility of mammoth “De-extinction”
Check out "Last Mammoths Spent Final Years on Solitary Island" by Nicholas Bakalar: goo.gl/aboCbI
The study, by Love Dalen, from the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and colleagues: goo.gl/P5meM7
A Vice article on revivalism and the possibility of Mammoth de-extinction: goo.gl/cvR8yT
Original beat by @ChaseMooreMusic
