Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones ...

Sequencing mammoth DNA has already helped scientists map out how these Ice Age giants evolved, migrated, and survived. But there's a hidden layer of history still waiting to be decoded – the microbes ...

A young woolly mammoth now known as Yuka was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for about 40,000 years before it was discovered by local tusk hunters in 2010. The hunters soon handed it over to ...

Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the region transitioned into an icy one with the end of the last interglacial ...

Researchers from Stockholm University have—for the first time ever—managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules from Ice Age woolly mammoths. These RNA sequences are the oldest ever ...

Acknowledgments -- Raising the dead -- Treasure of the wooden hills -- First design the Kobe steak -- River of bones -- Rat beneath the ice -- Deadly chill -- Killer wave of the new world -- Nastier ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...