For millennia, wild animals and humans co‐existed on the fringes—but around 15,000 years ago the first real partnership emerged with the domestication of the dog.

New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.

Researchers from Stockholm University have – for the first time ever – managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA ...

Advances in sequencing ancient DNA have revealed that over millenia, people have moved into new regions in successive waves, ...

A woolly mammoth that lived and died nearly 40,000 years ago has given us a spectacular scientific first, millennia later.

Scientists successfully sequence the RNA from woolly mammoths found in Siberia that lived up between 10,000 thousand and ...