RNA molecules have the capacity to survive the test of time. For the first time, the oldest RNA molecules have been extracted from the 40,000-year-old remains of an Ice Age woolly mammoth. Researchers ...

Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These fragile molecules could reveal which genes were active in the animal’s ...

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 ...