Researchers in Sweden and Denmark have for the first time managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules from the ...

High up in the icy mountains of Norway, archaeologists have discovered a unique 1,500-year-old reindeer trap, alongside ...

A 40,000-year-old juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka is not only remarkable because she was uncovered nearly intact or her grisly cause of death. Her muscles provided paleogeneticists with the oldest ...

Scientists have recovered the oldest-known RNA, a molecule necessary for most biological functions, from a woolly mammoth ...

The oldest known RNA, a molecule essential to the majority of biological processes, was found in a woolly mammoth that lived ...

Newly discovered patches of ancient landscape have somehow managed to survive without being turned into a farm, forest or ...

Hickory Run State Park in White Haven, Pennsylvania, is exactly that kind of pinch-worthy place. Let me tell you, Pennsylvania has been holding out on us with this 15,990-acre masterpiece tucked away ...

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.

Ancient RNA from Yuka, a 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth preserved in permafrost, can offer new biological insights into the Ice Age animal’s life.

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a wooly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...

Biologist and archaeologist Allowen Evin, of CNRS, and her colleagues compared the size and shape of 643 skulls from dogs and wolves: 158 from modern dogs, 86 from modern wolves, and 391 from ...