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In the current experiment, researchers identified seven genes that code for the mammoth's shaggy coat—identifying distinct ones that make it coarse, curly, and long. They also pinpointed one gene that guides the production of melanin—which gives the coat its distinctive gold color—and another that governs the animal's prodigious lipid metabolism.
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Wait wait wait.
Does this mean wooly mammoths were blonde?
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Mammoths are ARVAN!!!!!!!!!!

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yeah, they recovered pretty well preserved frozen specimens with hair and it was blonde/light brown
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16081-frozen-hair-gives-up-first-mammoth-genome/
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