In 2010 Yukaghir hunters found the nearly intact carcass of a young woolly mammoth frozen in the northern Siberian permafrost. With its reddish-brown fur still clinging to its skin, the dog-sized calf ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have recovered the oldest-known RNA, a molecule necessary for most biological functions, from a woolly mammoth that inhabited Siberia about 39,000 years ago, showing ...

The oldest genetic remains in history were discovered in the preserved tissues of a young mammoth, a species that became extinct almost forty thousand years ago. The finding was recently published in ...

A 39,000-year-old frozen woolly mammoth arrived in Yokohama from Russia to be exhibited for the first time. The frozen female mammoth named Yuka was found in the Saha Republic. She is believed to have ...

From feathered dinosaurs to frozen mammoths, fossils keep upending science with discoveries that rewrite the history of life. National Fossil Day is not just about admiring dinosaur skeletons or ...

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 ...