Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.

Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...

Frozen wolf pup stomach tissue produced a complete woolly rhino genome, implying stable genetics right before extinction hit ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

Crucially, the cub also lived around the time the woolly rhino went extinct, giving researchers a rare genetic snapshot from the species' final centuries. If there was a genetic component contributing ...

Two different ancient wolf populations contributed DNA to modern dogs, according to a study by an international group of geneticists and archaeologist. Dogs are known to have descended from the gray ...

A dog-like animal found in Italy has been revealed to be the earliest wolf ever discovered in Europe. The findings were published in the journal Scientific Reports last month. The discovery highlights ...

Man’s best friend was the first of many animals humans have domesticated. But there was no clear before-and-after moment where dogs were suddenly a distinct population of wolves. While some ancient ...

Dogs are one of humankind's greatest historical mysteries. Nobody is quite sure where they came from, but a new analysis of ancient wolf DNA points to somewhere in Asia. A cohort of geneticists, led ...