When I opened the door to the special exhibit on the Ice Age at Salt Lake’s Natural History Museum, I found myself face to ...

Snow days have gone the way of the wooly mammoth, due to the rise of remote learning and a packed school calendar.

Nestled in the southern Black Hills lies a town where time slows down and healing waters bubble up from the earth—Hot Springs, South Dakota, where relaxation isn’t just recommended, it’s geologically ...

MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (KEYT) Skier and snowboarders are flocking to mammoth and enjoying the runs that are open thanks to storms in Sierra and man made snow. Members of the Marine Corps Warfare ...

Scientists have successfully extracted and sequenced ancient RNA from permafrost-preserved tissues of 10 woolly mammoths. One of these, dated to be 39,000 years old, represents the oldest ancient RNA ...

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 ...

Akin to a text message sent tens of thousands of years ago, scientists have successfully decoded genetic instructions that were actively running inside muscle cells inside a frozen woolly mammoth the ...

Researchers have sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered, taken from a woolly mammoth frozen for nearly 40,000 years. The RNA reveals which genes were active in its tissues, offering a rare glimpse ...

Nov. 15 (UPI) --The well-preserved remains of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia enabled scientists to extract RNA for the first time and learn more about the animal. The woolly mammoth died about ...

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 ...