Scientists find the DNA of a 300,000-year-old horse in Schöningen, driven to extinction by hunting, next to a wooden spear ...

Scientists examine the mummified remains of a 39,000-year-old mammoth nicknamed Yuka, whose tissue yielded ancient RNA in a ...

Frozen in time, RNA cellular snapshots can reveal the health, diet, and behaviors of extinct animals at time of death. In A ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...

For the first time ever, scientists have captured video evidence of the elusive Mallomys istapantap, a mammal locals have known for generations but which no one in the scientific world had observed in ...

A 65-year-old man from Fresno County who had been missing in the snowcapped mountains of the Sierra National Forest for nearly three weeks was found alive, authorities announced earlier this week. Ron ...

A 13-year-old girl who was recently reported missing in Louisiana was found alive in Pittsburgh on Thursday in a basement concealed in a sheet-covered box, local news station WTAE reported. Ki-Shawn ...

Ron Dailey was found on Saturday after being missing since Oct. 13. An experienced hunter who was lost in the California wilderness for nearly 20 days was found alive by another group of hunters, ...

A California man who left home on a hunting trip, and then vanished for 20 days, has been found alive and in relatively good condition.

CLOVIS, Calif. -- A missing hunter who had been missing for 20 days in California was found alive on Saturday. Ron Dailey, of Selma, California was supposed to be gone for a day of hunting in the ...

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