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

The Sumatran rhino looks like it wandered out of another era and somehow got lost in the present day. Smaller than its ...

The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, would have been an impressive sight to the ancient people who painted images of ...

The findings, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, show that woolly rhinos remained "genetically healthy" ...

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

A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna ...

Museum scientists have identified and described an extinct rhinoceros species from Canada’s High Arctic. Researchers at the ...

In a Kenyan wildlife conservancy near the equator, armed guards protect two northern white rhinoceroses, Najin and Fatu. They are the last two northern white rhinos alive—both non-reproductive females ...

Studying how ancient animals lived and why they died out can offer important insight to protecting species today.

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from remains found in the stomach of a naturally ...