Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These ...

When reindeer herders in Siberia spotted a small snout protruding from thawing ground, they were not expecting to uncover a ...

Archaeologists discovered a 2,300-year-old trepanation tool—used to remove a section of bone from the skull—at an ancient commune in modern-day Poland. The ancient site was once inhabited by a group ...

Mounted Mammuthus primigenius skeleton on display at the Field Museum of Natural History. Credit: Jonathan Chen – CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Researchers say they have recovered RNA from the ...

For humans, kissing holds major cultural cachet, accompanying confessions of romantic love, religious rituals of reverence and even betrayals, à la The Godfather Part II’s “kiss of death.” New ...

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SPRINGFIELD – Authorities say a human skull found in September belonged to a Springfield man who went missing in 2021. The skull belonged to Kenneth P. Brown, who was 42 when he was reported missing ...

Unlike DNA, which offers genetic potential, RNA captures a snapshot of gene activity in real time. This new approach offers scientists an unexpectedly intimate look at the final biological moments of ...

Almost 40,000 years ago, a juvenile woolly mammoth died in modern-day Siberia. Today, its long-frozen remains have yielded the oldest sequences of RNA—messenger molecules that carry out genetic ...

For years, the story of the woolly mammoth has felt fixed in the past. Ancient bones, frozen tissue, and fragments of DNA help scientists stitch together how these giants lived and died. A new study ...

Scientists have sequenced the oldest RNA from a 40,000-year-old mammoth named Yuka, unlocking genetic activity from its final moments ...