Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A team of researchers dug into a permafrost-encased Siberian wolf’s stomach to get DNA details of a now-extinct woolly rhinoceros. For the first time ...

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 ...

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 ...

A genome reconstructed from a tiny piece of flesh found in the stomach of a wolf pup that died 14,400 years ago suggests that woolly rhinos were still genetically healthy even as they faced imminent ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the Indigenous Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest, woolly dogs played an extremely significant cultural and spiritual role. The Coast Salish prized the dogs for their distinctive fur, ...

Can woolly bear caterpillars predict the upcoming winter season?Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8 Today.Woolly bear caterpillars, also known as woolly worms, are part of folklore that suggests ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Have you ever heard the old wives tale about woolly bear caterpillars predicting the winter? It’s said that if the caterpillars have wider black bands, we are in for ...

Woolly bears (or woolly worms in the South) have 13 segments and a reputation for forecasting winter weather based on the thickness of their black and brown bands. Wider brown bands on wooly bears are ...

The trend for extinct or thought-to-be-lost creatures might be to revive them, but it’s undeniably cooler to actually prove that they still exist. And the rediscovered giant woolly rat is a creature ...