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 ...

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...

Researchers have successfully sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered from the remains of a woolly mammoth named Yuka, who died nearly 39,000 years ago. RNA degrades rapidly after death, far faster ...

RNA molecules have the capacity to survive the test of time. For the first time, the oldest RNA molecules have been extracted from the 40,000-year-old remains of an Ice Age woolly mammoth. Researchers ...