Oldest Parasite DNA To Date Found In Argentina
Radiocarbon dating on a 17000-year-old coprolite reveals parasitic roundworm eggs preserved inside. Scientists have found the oldest parasite DNA yet recorded, dating back 16,570 to 17,000 years ago, in the faeces of a pre-historic puma that roamed Argentina’s mountains as the last ice age was drawing to an end. It is the DNA of the […]