Scientists have recovered the oldest-known RNA, a molecule necessary for most biological functions, from a woolly mammoth ...

The oldest known RNA, a molecule essential to the majority of biological processes, was found in a woolly mammoth that lived ...

Genetic evidence from this 35,000-year-old Siberian wolf rib suggests dogs split from their wolf ancestors much earlier than thought. Humans and dogs were constant companions well before our ancestors ...

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

RNA from an exceptionally well preserved woolly mammoth gives us a window on gene activity in an animal that died nearly ...

When Pavel Efimov took a walk last summer along the shores of the Tirekhytakh River in Yakutia, Siberia, he probably never imagined that the melting permafrost would yield a discovery scary enough to ...

Dogs have held special significance in many people's lives for thousands of years. Researchers have found evidence that dogs were domesticated as long as 40,000 years ago. There is still controversy ...

A Texas man is howling out for help finding what he called his lost wolf-dog hybrid. Rick Spears, of San Antonio, said his “Alaskan Malamute-Siberian wolf” walked out of his apartment six days ago — ...

A chunk of permafrost on rocky substrate melts. Locked away in frigid Arctic soils and riverbeds is a world teeming with ancient microbes. Bacteria and viruses that existed thousands of years ago are ...

Researchers say that thawing Siberian permafrost has exposed “zombie” viruses that have been trapped for centuries beneath the layer of frozen ground and water. According to researchers, 13 previously ...

Q: My son loves wolves and he wants to get a Siberian husky, but I heard that since they look like wolves they act like them too, and that they can turn on you, and be unpredictable. I wanted to know ...

Russian scientists have found the furry head of an Ice Age wolf perfectly preserved in the Siberian permafrost. The head of a wolf, which died 40,000 years ago, was discovered in the Russian Arctic ...