Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Towards the end of the last ice age, an ancient wolf feasted on a ...

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

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 ...