A mummified wolf pup that died in Siberia roughly 14,400 years ago has yielded a scientific first: a complete woolly rhinoceros genome preserved in its stomach. By decoding that genetic trove, ...

YUKON, Canada — Gold miners in Canada's Klondike region discovered the mummified remains of an Ice Age wolf puppy and part of a caribou with fur and tissue still intact. The specimens were radiocarbon ...

Two ancient wolf pups found entombed in Siberian permafrost more than a decade ago are revealing new stories, thanks to rich DNA clues preserved inside their bodies. In a first, researchers found a ...

When reindeer herders in Siberia spotted a small snout protruding from thawing ground, they were not expecting to uncover a 14,000‑year‑old puppy so intact that its whiskers, eyelashes, and even the ...

Researchers from the Centre for Palaeogenetics have managed to analyse the genome from a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros, recovered from a tissue sample found preserved inside the stomach of an ...

The remains of a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros recovered from an Ice Age wolf's stomach have given new clues about the demise of the species. Analysis of the rhino's genome suggests the extinct ...

(CNN) — On the vast expanse of the Siberian steppe 14,000 years ago, a 2-month-old wolf pup gobbled down some woolly rhinoceros flesh. Moments later, its underground den collapsed, killing the pup and ...

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 ...

New analysis of the remains of two ‘puppies’ dating back more than 14,000 years ago has shown that they are most likely wolves, and not related to domestic dogs, as previously suggested. The genetic ...