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Ancient polar-bear fossil yields genome

DNA from a 110,000 - 130,000-year-old polar-bear fossil has been successfully sequenced. The genome, from a jawbone found in Svalbard, Norway, in 2004, indicates when polar bears (Ursus maritimus) diverged from their nearest common relative, the brown bear (Ursus arctos).

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