Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick coats and steady steps. Their bones, tusks, and frozen bodies have offered clues to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double helix ...

Scientists have made a rare and surprising discovery inside the frozen body of a young woolly mammoth. The animal, known as "Yuka," was found near Siberia's Arctic coast in 2010 and had been preserved ...

RNA has been discovered in the body of a young mammoth that died 40,000 years ago and now only has fur remaining. RNA typically disappears immediately after death. This is the first time RNA has been ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to target RNA that could lead to new treatment options for myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), the most common adult-onset form of ...