Scientists Successfully Extract 40,000-Year-Old RNA From Woolly Mammoth

Image caption (per Google Translate): Baby Mammoth Yuka – The exhibition was exhibited in Moscow at the Russian Geographical Society Festival from October 31 to November 6, 2014, at the Central House of Artists (CHA). Image credit: Cyclonaut via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 (no modifications). Article by Graham Templeton. ExtremeTech – November 19, 2025. Research article: Cell.

The woolly mammoth is probably the single most iconic extinct mammal, leading to seemingly never-ending efforts to resurrect it. To do that, however, scientists will need a good understanding of their genetics, and that’s difficult when the last meaningful population died out tens of thousands of years ago. Now, scientists have published incredible findings from a Siberian mammoth they’ve named Yuka, revealing that they’ve found mostly intact RNA that can be dated to around 40,000 years old. […]

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