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

While sifting through the juvenile mammoth’s genetic materials for traces of RNA, the team made another surprising discovery: ...

The oldest RNA ever reported until now came from a 14,300-year-old “wolf” puppy frozen in permafrost. But when Mármol-Sánchez ...

A woolly mammoth that lived and died nearly 40,000 years ago has given us a spectacular scientific first, millennia later.

The well-preserved remains of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia enabled scientists to extract RNA for the first time and ...

Researchers at Stockholm University carefully ground up bits of muscle and other tissue from Yuka and nine other woolly ...

In 2010 Yukaghir hunters found the nearly intact carcass of a young woolly mammoth frozen in the northern Siberian permafrost ...

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.

Scientists have recovered ancient RNA from a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth in Siberia, offering an unprecedented glimpse ...

Researchers at Stockholm University recovered intact RNA molecules – the chemical messengers that reveal which genes were active – from a 39,000-year-old male mammoth named Yuka. The breakthrough, ...

Scientists have recently successfully isolated and sequenced the oldest-known RNA from a juvenile male woolly mammoth – ...