Mammoths had 'anti-freeze blood', gene study finds

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Mammoths had 'anti-freeze blood', gene study finds

Mammoths had 'anti-freeze blood', gene study finds

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03-05-2010, 09:05

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Mammoths had 'anti-freeze blood', gene study finds

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Mammoths had a form of "anti-freeze" blood to keep their bodies supplied with oxygen at freezing temperatures.
Nature Genetics reports that scientists "resurrected" a woolly mammoth blood protein to come to their finding.

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The team found that mammoths possessed a genetic adaptation allowing their haemoglobin to release oxygen into the body even at low temperatures.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8657464.stm

Very interesting read.

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