The 14,000-Year-Old Stomach: How a Wolf Puppy Solved the Mystery of the Woolly Rhino’s Extinction

Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...

In the stomach of a mummified wolf pup, scientists find DNA from a woolly rhinoceros

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

14,000-year-old woolly rhinoceros DNA extracted from wolf’s stomach

Towards the end of the last ice age, an ancient wolf feasted on a young woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). When the ...
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Scientists found the entire woolly rhino genome inside the stomach of an ancient wolf pup

Frozen wolf pup stomach tissue produced a complete woolly rhino genome, implying stable genetics right before extinction hit ...

Ancient wolf stomach reveals final secrets of extinct woolly rhino

DNA found inside an Ice Age wolf challenges what we thought about how woolly rhinos died out.

DNA from wolf pup's last meal reveals new facts about woolly rhino's extinction

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

Your dog still carries wolf DNA and it may be shaping their behaviour today, study suggests

Most pet dogs carry small fragments of wolf DNA, left behind after their long association with people. That genetic trace is ...