Researchers analyzed ancient RNA from the extinct creatures. Could this be a “steppingstone” in the quest to bring them back?
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Mysteriously young 'mammoth' fossils discovered in Alaska turned out to be whale bones
For the past 70 years, the fossilized remains have been housed at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, where ...
Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These ...
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 ...
A stunning new animation shows saber-toothed cats attacking a herd of woolly mammoths toward the end of the last ice age in the frozen north of North America. "That whole story is set in the frozen ...
[BONUS] Woolly mammoth mice and filtering microplastics out of your water: Tiny Show and Tell Us #31
Sam Jones: Welcome to Tiny Show and Tell Us, the bonus series where you write in with your favorite science news or factoid, we read your email aloud, and then dive deeper. I'm Sam Jones, and I'm here ...
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