The frozen remains of a juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka preserved details about the animal’s last moments alive ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The body of the young woolly mammoth known as Yuka was so well-preserved that scientists were able to recover ancient RNA molecules. (Valeri Plotnikov) It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist ...

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... Scientists pull ancient RNA from a woolly mammoth's ...

A woolly mammoth that was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for nearly 40,000 years has yielded the world’s oldest RNA. The specimen, found in 2010 and nicknamed Yuka, is regarded as the ...

In 2010 Yukaghir hunters found the nearly intact carcass of a young woolly mammoth frozen in the northern Siberian permafrost. With its reddish-brown fur still clinging to its skin, the dog-sized calf ...