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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...