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

Three of the mammoth samples yielded ancient RNA fragments, particularly the sample from Yuka. Previously assumed to be a female mammoth, their analysis showed that Yuka had fragments of RNA from ...

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

RNA usually breaks down quickly, often within hours after death. Before this study, the oldest recovered RNA came from a ...

Scientists have sequenced ancient RNA before, determining the individual building blocks of the preserved molecules. But ...

Scientists have recently successfully isolated and sequenced the oldest-known RNA from a juvenile male woolly mammoth – ...

Researchers have successfully recovered intact RNA molecules from a woolly mammoth that died nearly 40,000 years ago in ...

Researchers at Stockholm University carefully ground up bits of muscle and other tissue from Yuka and nine other woolly ...

These scientists made a mammoth discovery — literally. Remains of a baby mammoth that has been almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia.

More than one million species are threatened with extinction, according to the United Nations. “Right now, it’s causing ecological effects,” says Ben Lamm, CEO and co-founder of Colossal Biosciences. ...