New data shows Ice Age hunters used Mezhyrich’s mammoth-bone shelters briefly, highlighting adaptations in a volatile, frigid ...

A pair of fossils once thought to be the youngest woolly mammoth remains ever found in Alaska have turned out to be something ...

This discovery is a major step in potentially bringing back the extinct species.

The growth plates, known as specimens UAMN3760 and UAMN3724, were discovered near Fairbanks in the early 1950s. University of Alaska Museum of the North In the early 1950s, naturalist Otto Geist was ...

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CRAWLING ON YOUR FRONT OR BACK PORCH. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE WOOLY BEAR CATERPILLAR. DEFINITELY HAVE SEEN THEM. RUMOR HAS IT THAT THESE CATERPILLARS MAY HAVE SOMETHING UP THEIR SLEEVES IN TERMS OF ...

New research published in the journal Cell reveals that scientists have managed to extract RNA, the molecule that translates genes into proteins, from the remains of a woolly mammoth that came from ...

Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick coats and steady steps. Their bones, tusks, and frozen bodies have offered clues to ...

One of Yuka's legs, illustrating the exceptional preservation of the lower part of the leg after the skin had been removed, which enabled recovery of ancient RNA molecules. Credit: Valeri Plotnikov.

Researchers have sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered, taken from a woolly mammoth frozen for nearly 40,000 years. The RNA reveals which genes were active in its tissues, offering a rare glimpse ...

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 ...