Published on October 11, 2024 at 5:09 p.m. / Modified on October 11, 2024 at 5:12 p.m.
The analysis of ancient DNA, decades or millennia old, provides access to valuable information, sometimes in the most unexpected places. In an article published this Friday in the journal Current BiologyAmerican and Kenyan researchers tell how they identified the diet of two lions killed in 1898 and kept in a Chicago museum ever since. Using DNA extracted from hairs clinging to the canines of wild animals, they determined the prey on their meal menu. With, among them, humans.
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