For the first time ever, the mitochondrial genome of a European woolly rhinoceros has been reconstructed. The now-extinct animals’ DNA was extracted from fossilized cave hyena poop found in ...

Rare woolly rhino mummies emerge from the permafrost The new finds confirm the existence of a feature seen in cave art.

Yagi and Quinn identified scat that was likely left by a Sumatran rhinoceros in Indonesia’s Way Kambas National Park, where ...

Scientists have uncovered a woolly rhino mummy so well preserved in the Russian permafrost for more than 32,000 years that its skin and fur are still intact.

This woolly rhinoceros has been dead for 32,000 years. Russian scientists found it on the banks of the Tirekhtyakh River so well-preserved in the permafrost that its skin and fur are still in ...

Scientists reconstructed the mitochondrial genome of a European Woolly Rhinoceros for the first time. Extracting DNA from fossilized hyena feces was critical to the process. Using the DNA, the ...

Paleontologists have long debated whether the woolly rhinoceros had a hump on its back, and a new fossil discovery has finally confirmed that the ancient beast did indeed possess a hump, likely ...

Scientists reconstructed the mitochondrial genome of a European Woolly Rhinoceros for the first time. Extracting DNA from fossilized hyena feces was critical to the process. Using the DNA, the ...

Siberian hunters have stumbled upon the remains of a 10,000-year-old baby wooly rhino. It’s the first discovery of its kind, and one of only several wooly rhino specimens ever found. As reported ...

Fossilized feces from the Pleistocene epoch have divulged the mitochondrial DNA of a woolly rhinoceros, whose genome had never previously been assembled. The ancient poop was not excreted by an ...