Scientists Extract Ice Age DNA From a Rhino Inside a Wolf’s Stomach ...
The contents of an ancient wolf pup's stomach yields surprising clues into the genetic lineage of extinct species.
For many people, thinking of Ice Age animals evokes images of woolly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. But in ...
Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company working to bring back the woolly mammoth, has actually already brought back ...
“Everyone knows that the woolly mammoth went extinct, but virtually no-one mentions the plants that were lost at the end of the last ice age,” says Prof Ulrike Herzschuh from the Alfred Wegener ...
Long before highways and high-rises, Earth was home to some seriously massive, strange, and downright wild animals. These creatures ruled the Ice Age and thrived in frozen landscapes. But as the ...
Researchers have extracted DNA and recovered the rhino's genome from a chunk of undigested meat from the stomach contents found in a wolf puppy's remains.
The mountain pygmy possum, a tiny nocturnal marsupial, was once known only from Ice Age fossils. Today, we know where its 2,000 remaining individuals are holding on. In 1895, deep within the limestone ...