Professor Alice Roberts reveals the natural history of the most famous of Ice Age animals – the Woolly Mammoth. Mammoths have ...

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

Researchers have sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered, taken from a woolly mammoth frozen for nearly 40,000 years. The RNA ...

Researchers from Stockholm University extracted the RNA sequences from a juvenile mammoth (named Yuka) that died almost ...

For the first time, researchers have uncovered Ice Age RNA preserved within permafrost mammoth tissue, offering a rare glimpse into real-time gene activity from tens of millennia ago. Researchers at ...

Researchers from Stockholm University have—for the first time ever—managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules from Ice Age woolly mammoths. These RNA sequences are the oldest ever ...

Researchers from Stockholm University have—for the first time ever—managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules from Ice Age woolly mammoths. These RNA sequences are the oldest ever ...

To search for even older RNA, Pour and his team focused on the permafrost regions of Siberia, where thawing soil has yielded ...

In the final moments of Yuka the woolly mammoth’s life, he may have been trying to outsprint a cave lion. Yuka’s hind legs bear scratches — and in his muscle tissue, scientists have detected molecular ...

Scientists successfully extracted and sequenced the oldest-known RNA from a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth named Yuka. This breakthrough offers a new understanding of prehistoric biology. The study ...

Rebecca Woods received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. University of Toronto provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of ...

A young woolly mammoth now known as Yuka was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for about 40,000 years before it was discovered by local tusk hunters in 2010. The hunters soon handed it over to ...