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A 14,000-year-old mummified puppy discovered in Siberia contained the unexpected remains of a woolly rhinoceros in its ...

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Fossilized feces from the Pleistocene epoch have divulged the mitochondrial DNA of a woolly rhinoceros, whose genome had never previously been assembled. The ancient poop was not excreted by an ...

Scientists reconstructed the mitochondrial genome of a European Woolly Rhinoceros for the first time. Extracting DNA from fossilized hyena feces was critical to the process. Using the DNA, the team ...

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The extinction of prehistoric megafauna like the woolly mammoth, cave lion, and woolly rhinoceros at the end of the last ice age has often been attributed to the spread of early humans across the ...

The bones were found during a construction project. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The bones of a woolly mammoth, woolly ...

Researchers have discovered sustained hunting by humans prevented the woolly rhinoceros from accessing favourable habitats as Earth warmed following the Last Ice Age. An international team of ...

Did rhinos once roam Germany? Seriously: They did once live in the area, during the last Ice Age. This fact is documented by numerous finds of bones, and now genetic traces, too, that a team of ...