The contents of an ancient wolf pup's stomach yields surprising clues into the genetic lineage of extinct species.

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it ...

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, recovered from a tissue sample found preserved inside the stomach of an ...

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.

A rare sample from a woolly rhinoceroses reveals how the population changed in the lead-up to the species’ extinction.

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to survive the cold during the ice age. A team of palaeontologists and ...

Researchers sequenced a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros genome recovered from a wolf’s stomach. The analysis revealed stable genetic diversity until extinction, suggesting the species collapsed ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, ...