Researchers say they have recovered RNA from the remains of a woolly mammoth that lived roughly 39,000 years ago.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Frozen in time, RNA cellular snapshots can reveal the health, diet, and behaviors of extinct animals at time of death. In A ...

Scientists are consistently one-upping each other when it comes to finding the oldest molecules from fossils. The race even includes the notoriously fragile RNA. “It’s groundbreaking,” said Oliver ...

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

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 ...

In 2010, tusk hunters scouring a riverbank near Siberia’s Arctic coast discovered the mummy of a juvenile mammoth. The animal, nicknamed “Yuka” after the nearby village of Yukagir, had been frozen for ...