Tag: Arctic biology
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The Greenland Shark Isn’t Blind: Eyes Adapt in Dark Arctic Waters
New insight into an ancient hunter The Greenland shark, a colossal Arctic resident and the longest-living vertebrate known to science, is renowned for surviving in some of the planet’s darkest, coldest waters. But a new wave of research is challenging the long-held image of this slow-moving predator as nearly blind in the deep blackness. Scientists…
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Ancient RNA Reveals the Final Moments of a 40,000-Year-Old Siberian Woolly Mammoth
New findings illuminate the life and death of a prehistoric giant In a groundbreaking study, scientists from Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History have achieved what many believed impossible: extracting and sequencing RNA from the soft tissue of a juvenile woolly mammoth that roamed the frozen terrains of Siberia around 40,000 years…