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Wolf pup's stomach yields DNA from one of world's last surviving woolly rhinos

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 genomic analysis of the woolly rhino tissue found inside the stomach of an ice age wolf ( Canis lupis) revealed that woolly rhino's extinction occurred rapidly soon after.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 days ago

Scientists Find Extinct Rhino DNA in Mummified Wolf Puppy's Stomach

Woolly rhinoceros genome was sequenced from tissue in a mummified Pleistocene wolf pup, showing genetically healthy, stable population around 14,400 years ago.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Wolf's dinner preserved in Siberia for 14,400 years sheds light on woolly rhino

A woolly rhinoceros genome was recovered from partially digested tissue inside a 14,400-year-old mummified wolf cub, providing genetic data from near the species' extinction.
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