There’s a joke amongst skiers who live in the Sierra. Like Fall? Too bad. We jump straight from summer to winter around these parts. The transition to full-blown snowpack and icy temperatures doesn’t ...

A major breakthrough in paleontology has shifted our understanding of the woolly mammoth’s presence in North America. A 216,000-year-old mammoth tooth, discovered along the Old Crow River in the Yukon ...

Scientists have recovered ancient molecules of RNA from a juvenile mammoth named Yuka, who died 40,000 years ago in what is now Siberia. These biological remnants are providing insight into the last ...

Scientists have uncovered microbial DNA preserved in mammoth remains dating back more than one million years, revealing the oldest host-associated microbial DNA ever recovered. By sequencing nearly ...

Researchers from Stockholm University have—for the first time ever—managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules from Ice Age woolly mammoths. These RNA sequences are the oldest ever ...

The woolly mammoth is probably the single most iconic extinct mammal, leading to seemingly never-ending efforts to resurrect it. To do that, however, scientists will need a good understanding of their ...

A woolly mammoth that was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for nearly 40,000 years has yielded the world’s oldest RNA. The specimen, found in 2010 and nicknamed Yuka, is regarded as the ...

North America's mammoth species were breeding together within the past 40,000 years. Fossil teeth found in Canada show that Columbian and wooly mammoths regularly had calves together where the ...

In 2010, tusk hunters scouring a riverbank near Siberia’s Arctic coast discovered the mummy of a juvenile mammoth. The animal, nicknamed “Yuka” after the nearby village of Yukagir, had been frozen for ...

A shaggy young male mammoth, weighing about the same as an ambulance, his tusks 8 feet long, once ate the grasses in what today is Erie County. He might have encountered humans, although it's unlikely ...