Prehistoric Planet” follows mammals fighting to survive in a shifting climate, from the freezing time of the Ice Age, to global temperatures rising.

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 ...

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

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

For the first time, researchers have uncovered Ice Age RNA preserved within permafrost mammoth tissue, offering a rare glimpse into real-time gene activity from tens of millennia ago. Researchers at ...

Scientists examine the mummified remains of a 39,000-year-old mammoth nicknamed Yuka, whose tissue yielded ancient RNA in a ...

Scientists extracted 39,000-year-old RNA from a frozen woolly mammoth, revealing which genes were active when it died.

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 ...

Researchers have sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered, taken from a woolly mammoth frozen for nearly 40,000 years. The RNA ...

Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick coats ...

For the first time in history, scientists have extracted and decoded RNA molecules from the remains of an Ice Age woolly mammoth. The breakthrough, achieved by researchers at Stockholm University and ...

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