From cancer-resistant mole rats to 200-year-old whales, evolution has equipped long-lived species with unique biological ...

Nature's oldest creatures defy aging rules. Greenland sharks live nearly 400 years. Ocean quahogs reach over 500 years.

While sifting through the juvenile mammoth’s genetic materials for traces of RNA, the team made another surprising discovery: ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

Scientists have recovered RNA from a mammoth carcass preserved in permafrost for 40,000 years. The ancient molecules reveal ...

Native to the arctic waters of the northern hemisphere, the Bowhead whale can live for centuries, and now scientists think ...

The oldest RNA ever reported until now came from a 14,300-year-old “wolf” puppy frozen in permafrost. But when Mármol-Sánchez ...

Aging brings about a range of changes—often unwelcome—to our bodies: sagging skin, graying or thinning hair, and a decline in muscle strength and ...

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Before Igor could even make it onto the Best Friends adoption site, Monte had adopted him. Five months on from his rescue, Igor is a dog transformed, living out his golden years, enjoying the love and ...

RNA from an exceptionally well preserved woolly mammoth gives us a window on gene activity in an animal that died nearly ...