A new article analyzes in depth the physical problems associated with DNA packaging that have often been neglected in structural models of chromosomes. The study demonstrates that the multilaminar ...

In a big scientific leap, researchers have successfully sequenced RNA from an extinct Tasmanian tiger specimen that is over a ...

Interestingly, it's those descendants that are the key to bringing the mammoths back. A good amount of mammoth DNA has been ...

South Dakota's Mammoth Site is a museum where visitors can watch paleontologists uncover ancient mammoth fossils in real-time ...

The team has been collecting woolly mammoth remains from Wrangel Island and Siberia. They've extracted each animal's complete DNA set and analyzed 21 of those genomes. What they've found is that the ...

Gold miners are finding fossils and mummified animals from the Ice Age. Now paleontologists have an ancient wolf pup, a baby ...

Discover why bringing dinosaurs back to life is improbable. Get insights from a scientist about the challenges of dinosaur de ...

Dr Beth Shapiro offered her opinion about why a dinosaur revival is unlikely to happen in the same manner as Jurassic Park.

A sovereign wealth fund would allow India to actively manage its foreign exchange reserves, generate higher returns, and ...

LONG-GONE species like the woolly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger, and dodo bird could return from the dead as part of a “de-extinction” campaign. The term “extinct” brings to ...

SCIENTISTS have long pondered the concept of de-extinction, or reviving long-gone species that are hundreds of thousands of years old. Now they say we’re closer than ever to bringing the ...

The rare discovery will help scientists find out more about the prehistoric animal’s development, diet and living conditions ...