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 ...
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 ...
Almost 40,000 years ago, a juvenile woolly mammoth died in modern-day Siberia. Today, its long-frozen remains have yielded the oldest sequences of RNA—messenger molecules that carry out genetic ...
Researchers have successfully sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered from the remains of a woolly mammoth named Yuka, who died nearly 39,000 years ago. RNA degrades rapidly after death, far faster ...
The woolly mammoth once roamed the vast frozen landscapes of the Cenozoic Era. This video explores the life, dominance, and eventual extinction of one of the most iconic Ice Age creatures. While Trump ...
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 ...