Two Ice Age wolf pups once thought to be early dogs have been identified as wild wolves, thanks to detailed DNA and chemical analysis. Surprisingly, their last meals included woolly rhinoceros meat—an ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. This wolf looks pretty good for its age, considering it's 44,000 years old. In 2021, residents of ...

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal. The woolly rhinoceros, illustrated above, is an extinct ...

A genome reconstructed from a tiny piece of flesh found in the stomach of a wolf pup that died 14,400 years ago suggests that woolly rhinos were still genetically healthy even as they faced imminent ...