International research and highly-specialized divers are bringing an underground, underwater world to the surface ...

A 14,000-year-old mummified puppy discovered in Siberia contained the unexpected remains of a woolly rhinoceros in its ...

The marsupial lion, which vanished around 40,000 years ago, was a muscular ambush predator about the size of a modern lion.

The discovery of a juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka, found in Siberian permafrost with its skin and muscles intact, has ...

Archaeologists uncovered 150,000-year-old tools in Morocco’s Bizmoune Cave, revealing how early humans hunted and lived.

For the first time, researchers have uncovered Ice Age RNA preserved within permafrost mammoth tissue, offering a rare glimpse into real-time gene activity from tens of millennia ago. Researchers at ...

The frozen remains of a juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka preserved details about the animal’s last moments alive ...

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 ...

Koalas may look like peaceful, eucalyptus-chewing tree-dwellers, while the marsupial lion was one of the fiercest Ice Age predators ever to roam Australia. But scientists have now discovered that ...

Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick coats ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.

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 ...