Tag: Arctic biology


  • Ancient RNA Reveals the Final Moments of a 40,000-Year-Old Siberian Woolly Mammoth

    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…