Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.
Towards the end of the last ice age, an ancient wolf feasted on a young woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). When the ...
An unusual DNA source shows woolly rhinos did not slowly decline genetically, pointing instead to rapid climate warming.
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 ...
And, based on its DNA, the meat was the flesh of an animal you might not expect to find in a wolf’s belly: a woolly ...
The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ...
Analysis of woolly rhinoceros DNA recovered from the permafrost-preserved wolf further hints that the Ice Age beasts went ...
Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.
The findings, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, show that woolly rhinos remained "genetically healthy" ...
Researchers from the Center for Paleogenetics have managed to analyze the genome from a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros, ...
Museum scientists have identified and described an extinct rhinoceros species from Canada’s High Arctic. Researchers at the ...