WOOLLY mammoths are a step closer to coming back from the dead after RNA from a 39,000-year-old carcass was found. The Ice Age discovery was found in one of ten trapped woolly mammoths sampled ...

Long before global warming was the biggest environmental issue, the planet was in the opposite kind of funk — an ice age lasting around 2.6 million years. During this time, starting about 700,000 ...

New research published in the journal Cell reveals that scientists have managed to extract RNA, the molecule that translates ...

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, ...

In recent months, the Dallas-based biotech firm Colossal Biosciences announced the rebirth of the long-extinct dire wolf and woolly mammoth, species that had been extinct for thousands of years, ...

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

Scientists have collected ancient RNA from mammoth samples up to 52,000 years old. Learn how they can use that RNA to ...

Scientists have extracted RNA from a 39,000-year-old Ice Age woolly mammoth trapped in the Siberian permafrost ...

Ice Age" shows how iconic ice age creatures adapted to their changing environment as temperatures rose and ice sheets started ...