cryptids genetics

[Loki]

Did you know that a small number of sequences extracted from extinct organisms have been deposited at GenBank? These include DNA from the Neanderthal man, the woolly mammoth, the saber-toothed cat, and several giant New Zealand birds (moas) among others. A more complete list of extinct organisms that are represented in the public sequence database can be found here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/index.cgi?chapter=extinct