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

Scientists recovered 39,000-year-old RNA from a frozen mammoth, revealing gene activity, physiology and stress, opening new ...

Researchers have sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered, taken from a woolly mammoth frozen for nearly 40,000 years. The RNA ...

We created a very special #diorama when #Scrat the squirrel accidentally found a frozen #mammoth friend, and to his surprise there were so many acorns for him right in front of what he was looking for ...

Narrator Tom Hiddleston teases "remarkable creatures and epic clashes for survival" in a sneak peek at 'Prehistoric Planet: ...

Scientists discovered 6-million-year-old ice in Antarctica, offering the oldest direct record of Earth’s ancient atmosphere ...

Antarctica's ice cores are like frozen diaries of Earth's past, preserving ancient air and climate clues. Most continuous ...

Canadian hockey star Duncan MacPherson vanished in Austria in 1989, leaving his family in agonizing uncertainty for 14 years.

Researchers from Stockholm University extracted the RNA sequences from a juvenile mammoth (named Yuka) that died almost ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...

MOSCOW - It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for more than 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of ...