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

Mármol and his colleagues extracted RNA sequences from the muscles and skin of 10 permafrozen woolly mammoth specimens found across Northeastern Siberia. Analysis of one specimen, a juvenile mammoth ...

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

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

Researchers from Stockholm University have—for the first time ever—managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules ...

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

Now, scientists have published incredible findings from a Siberian mammoth they've named Yuka, revealing that they've found ...

A 40,000-year-old juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka is not only remarkable because she was uncovered nearly intact or her ...

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

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

In 2010 Yukaghir hunters found the nearly intact carcass of a young woolly mammoth frozen in the northern Siberian permafrost. Now a team of researchers has extracted from Yuka the oldest RNA ...

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, ...