Get the latest Science News and Discoveries

RNA has been recovered from an extinct species for the first time

None

Get the Android app

Or read this on r/EverythingScience

Read more on:

Photo of Time

Time

Photo of RNA

RNA

Photo of extinct species

extinct species

Related news:

Spider silk is spun by silkworms for the first time, offering a green alternative to synthetic fibers

It’s Time To Get Your Solar Eclipse Glasses—While You Still Can

It's Time to Engineer the Sky

« Kepler predicted that Venus' diameter is almost a quarter of the Sun's diameter, so Mercury should have a tenth of the Sun's diameter. Pierre Gassendi saw the true size of Mercury in 1631 during its transit across the Sun, and was surprised by how small it was as it looked like a sunspot

Interlocking logs may be evidence of the oldest known wooden structure »