Scientists have extracted RNA from an ancient woolly mammoth that gives new insight into the extinct beasts—and might one day boost moonshot efforts to resurrect them. The animal’s body was discovered ...

The films ‘Seeds’ and ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics’ also won major prizes at the association’s annual ceremony on Saturday. By Katie Kilkenny Labor & Media Reporter The Tale of Silyan clinched the top ...

Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These fragile molecules could reveal which genes were active in the animal’s ...

Significant fossil discoveries in North Dakota include a T. rex and two mammoths. One mammoth found under a garage shows signs of a rare bone disease or malnutrition. The fossils will eventually be ...

The Columbian recently received regional and national recognition for maintaining a strong, family-owned news company, something we’ve done partly through innovation and partly through legacy. One of ...

What do you build with when trees are scarce and winters are brutal? For hunter-gatherers living in current-day Ukraine some 18,000 years ago, the answer was simple: mammoth bones. A recent research ...

BEULAH, N.D. (NORTH DAKOTA MONITOR) - The North Dakota Geological Survey has found a new Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at a dig site in southwest North Dakota. Researchers first discovered the bones in ...

Scientists have recovered ancient molecules of RNA from a juvenile mammoth named Yuka, who died 40,000 years ago in what is now Siberia. These biological remnants are providing insight into the last ...

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Dozens of local elementary school children, already energetic from a field trip to the Natural History Museum of Utah, burst into celebration as they were greeted with one last ...

Sometimes the greatest discoveries are actually rediscoveries. In Canada, for example, researchers revealed North America’s most northeasterly woolly mammoth find after taking a second look at a ...

Allen Thomas covered hunting, fishing, hiking, skiing and other outdoor recreation topics for The Columbian from 1978 to 2017. He passed away Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, from leukemia. He was 73. Allen ...