Yakutsk isn't a typical tourist destination. It's an extreme environment where humans have adapted to conditions that would ...

The Arctic rarely surprises anyone. It’s cold, remote, and famously slow to change. Ice forms, ice melts, repeat. But ...

Research into hibernating animals reveals that memory lives in the cell and life is defined by the persistence of embodied ...

Yakutsk, a Siberian city built on permafrost, is experiencing significant challenges as rising temperatures thaw the frozen ...

Scientists Extract Ice Age DNA From a Rhino Inside a Wolf’s Stomach ...

Crucially, the cub also lived around the time the woolly rhino went extinct, giving researchers a rare genetic snapshot from the species' final centuries. If there was a genetic component contributing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-up of the wolf puppy, which was frozen for 14,000 years in the Siberian permafrost. - Mietje Germonpré On the vast expanse ...

Scientists prepared a high-quality sequence of the giant mammal’s genome based on a specimen preserved in Siberian permafrost. By Ari Daniel It’s not every day that one gets to hold a chunk of hide ...

A series of scientific findings suggest that life is more resilient, more patient, and more inventive than previously thought ...

Two ancient wolf pups found entombed in Siberian permafrost more than a decade ago are revealing new stories, thanks to rich DNA clues preserved inside their bodies. In a first, researchers found a ...

Two ancient wolf pups found entombed in Siberian permafrost more than a decade ago are revealing new stories, thanks to rich DNA clues preserved inside their bodies. In a first, researchers found a ...

A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna species, the woolly rhinoceros. When researchers dissected the frozen ...