See All Key Ideas In the arctic tundra of northeastern Siberia lies a graveyard of a now-extinct species of megafauna, the woolly rhinoceros, dating back 50,000 years. Now, a new genomic analysis ...

Miners accidentally uncovered a mummified wooly rhinoceros and a preserved horn at a dig site in Russia. Under special conditions, permafrost mummifies plant and animal remains through a process ...

Artist’s illustration of a woolly rhinoceros during the Pleistocene Period. Alamy Stock Photo “It was the Karginsky Interglacial Period, when the temperatures were warmer, the soil defrosted ...

The frozen and well-preserved carcass of an extinct woolly rhinoceros — with its last meal still inside — has been recovered in Siberia, where it spent about 34,000 years in the barren ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lifelike restoration using the remains of a baby woolly rhinoceros recovered from the Siberian permafrost. The specimen was nicknamed Sasha after the hunter who discovered it. Albert Protopopov ...

This July, he and his colleagues described the relatively recent discovery of three woolly rhinoceros mummies, one of which is new to science, in a paper published in the journal Doklady Earth ...

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 ...