Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Over a decade ago, a pair of Siberian wolf pups were pulled from the permafrost near the village of Tumat in northeast Siberia. One pup had its final ...

The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, would have been an impressive sight to the ancient people who painted images of them on cave walls and carved figurines of them out of bone, antler, ivory ...

The woolly rhinoceros, illustrated above, is an extinct species of rhinoceros that was common throughout Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene epoch. Scientists recently sequenced the genome ...

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More than a decade ago, the mummified remains of two ancient wolf pups were uncovered from within the Siberian permafrost. A piece of flesh from a woolly rhinoceros was found inside one of the pups' ...

For most people, an extinct species is an abstraction, a set of bones they might have seen on display in a museum. For Gennady Boeskorov, they are things he has interacted with directly, studying ...

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 species, the woolly rhinoceros. When researchers dissected the frozen ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered a woolly rhino so well preserved in the Russian permafrost for more than 32,000 years that its skin and fur are still intact. This woolly rhino died when it was about four ...