Scientists extracted 39,000-year-old RNA from a frozen woolly mammoth, revealing which genes were active when it died.

The fate of the woolly mammoth is a story shaped by survival, isolation, and one final mystery still unsolved. Once scattered across the sweeping tundras of the Ice Age, these towering animals thrived ...

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

Researchers have accomplished a strange and controversial thing in the name of conservation. Using modern genetic engineering techniques, they've created mice with long, thick hair that resembles the ...