Well, what about a baby woolly mammoth? A team of Russian scientists is working hard to resurrect this quintessential Ice Age ...

Scientists have recovered the oldest-known RNA, a molecule necessary for most biological functions, from a wooly mammoth that inhabited Siberia about 39,000 years ago, showing it can last longer than ...

A pair of woolly mammoth vertebrae in Alaska have been dated to around 2,000 years old, making them by far the most recent evidence for the existence of this extinct beast ever recorded. However, upon ...

How Colossal Biosciences’ CEO Ben Lamm keeps the hype cycle going. By Jonathan Matthews In our first article in this series, ...

For close to 40 years, Australians had mistakenly believed one of their cutest wallaby species was likely extinct. The error ...

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Quentin Martinez and Eli Amson holding mammalian skulls they CT-scanned for this study (a La Plata dolphin and a West Indian ...

Ice Age humans crafted extraordinary shelters from mammoth bones, showcasing a remarkable blend of survival instincts and ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

The nature documentary series uses new research and photorealistic CGI to bring the huge, bizarre animals of the Ice Age back ...

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Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These ...