A wolf pup sealed in Siberian permafrost carried a surprise more revealing than a museum label. Inside its stomach, scientists found woolly rhinoceros muscle and hair preserved intact, then used that ...

In 2011, mammoth ivory hunters in northeastern Siberia discovered a mummified wolf puppy that had lain frozen for 14,400 years. An autopsy of the permafrost-preserved pup revealed another surprise: ...

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 ...

What if you walked into your favorite fast food place, and instead of chicken and beef burgers, they only had Woolly Rhinoceros on the menu? Well, it might not sound very appetizing now, but thousands ...

Roughly 14,400 years ago in what is now Russia, a wolf pup feasted on the meat of a woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) that probably belonged to one of the last populations of the species. A ...

The longest woolly rhino horn ever found is providing new insights into the lives of these now extinct animals. The horn — found preserved in Siberian permafrost — stretched over 1.6 meters, nearly ...

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 its ...

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 ...