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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Scientists examine the mummified remains of a 39,000-year-old mammoth nicknamed Yuka, whose tissue yielded ancient RNA in a ...