A sleepy koala may seem worlds apart from a giant Ice Age predator, but scientists have uncovered the first molecular ...

Far below the surface of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a flooded labyrinth of limestone tunnels has quietly guarded one of the ...

If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an ...

In the depths of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a team of divers has uncovered extraordinary fossil remains from two ...

Scientists have recently successfully isolated and sequenced the oldest-known RNA from a juvenile male woolly mammoth – ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...

RNA usually breaks down quickly, often within hours after death. Before this study, the oldest recovered RNA came from a ...

Koalas may look like peaceful, eucalyptus-chewing tree-dwellers, while the marsupial lion was one of the fiercest Ice Age predators ever to roam Australia. But scientists have now discovered that ...

A New Zealand wildlife park that said it was being forced to euthanize seven elderly lions because of financial difficulties has put down two of the big cats. The Kamo Wildlife Sanctuary said on ...