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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 work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ...

Scientists prepared a high-quality sequence of the giant mammal’s genome based on a specimen preserved in Siberian permafrost.

Towards the end of the last ice age, an ancient wolf feasted on a young woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). When the ...

The sadly now extinct rhino lived on the steppes and tundra of Europe and Asia, living alongside people for thousands of ...