Ice Age" shows how iconic ice age creatures adapted to their changing environment as temperatures rose and ice sheets started to melt.

RNA usually breaks down quickly, often within hours after death. Before this study, the oldest recovered RNA came from a ...

From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the visuals in this ...

What killed the woolly mammoths and mastodons? It was not just the changing climate, but a cosmic event that triggered a ...

Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick coats ...

New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died. It was 2012 when Love Dalén, ...