Imagine a world where enormous woolly mammoths still roamed the frozen tundra, their long tusks sweeping through the snow as they trudged across ancient grasslands. These Ice Age giants once shaped ...

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...

One of Yuka’s legs, illustrating the exceptional preservation of the lower part of the leg after the skin had been removed, which enabled recovery of ancient RNA molecules. Photo credit: Valeri ...