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Though the woolly rhinoceros might not be as well known as its contemporary, the woolly mammoth, it roamed the Earth for millions of years—until its extinction about 10,000 years ago, at the end of ...

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 ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

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 ...

In 2020, the frozen, mummified carcass of a young woolly rhinoceros was unearthed in Siberia. The right side of the animal's body is well-preserved, but the left side shows signs of being mauled by ...

A local resident stumbled upon the remains of the 19,700-year-old beast. Its record-breaking horn offers new insights into life in the Ice Age. Horn of the 19,700-year-old woolly rhinoceros found in ...

Researchers have discovered sustained hunting by humans prevented the woolly rhinoceros from accessing favourable habitats as Earth warmed following the Last Ice Age. An international team of ...

Did rhinos once roam Germany? Seriously: They did once live in the area, during the last Ice Age. This fact is documented by numerous finds of bones, and now genetic traces, too, that a team of ...

Researchers found the carcass in August 2020 in Russia's Sakha Republic, and the discovery has revealed a never-before-seen characteristic of woolly rhinos: a fatty hump on the animal's back. When you ...