The thylacine, more commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct over eight decades ago. However, recent advances in scientific research have enabled the recovery of RNA from this ...
In 2010, tusk hunters scouring a riverbank near Siberia’s Arctic coast discovered the mummy of a juvenile mammoth. The animal, nicknamed “Yuka” after the nearby village of Yukagir, had been frozen for ...
Ancient DNA has been pulled from a permafrost-preserved woolly mammoth found in Siberia, and scientists are thrilled. They recovered and sequenced RNA, a fragile molecule that many biologists assumed ...
A woolly mammoth that was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for nearly 40,000 years has yielded the world’s oldest RNA. The specimen, found in 2010 and nicknamed Yuka, is regarded as the ...