While sifting through the juvenile mammoth’s genetic materials for traces of RNA, the team made another surprising discovery: ...

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

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

The floating Tara Polar Station, which will start surveying the Arctic next year, will not scan Russian waters due to the ...

Researchers have sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered, taken from a woolly mammoth frozen for nearly 40,000 years. The RNA ...

New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.

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, ...

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