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

Scientists have recovered ancient RNA from a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth in Siberia, offering an unprecedented glimpse ...

Every mind-bending molecule in nature has an evolutionary origin; a defense against being eaten, a lure for pollinators, or ...

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

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

A new study of ancient dog DNA shows that people and dogs traveled together across Eurasia for at least 10,000 years.

Scientists say they will reanimate a 30,000-year-old giant virus unearthed in the frozen wastelands of Siberia, and have warned climate change in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions could awaken ...

Entire communities were shifted across vast distances, often under the banner of development or security. That long history ...

When miners first unearthed a bird from permafrost in Siberia, it was so well-preserved that they might have thought the poor creature had perished just the day before. But radiocarbon dating and ...

Officially, there is no such place as Siberia. No political or territorial entity has Siberia as its name. In atlases, the word “Siberia” hovers across the northern third of Asia unconnected to any ...

Siberians told to stay indoors as temperatures fall to 85 degrees below zero. — -- If you thought the recent cold snap in the United States was bad, try telling that to some residents of Siberia.