A close-up of the wolf puppy, which was frozen for 14,000 years in the Siberian permafrost. - Mietje Germonpré On the vast expanse of the Siberian steppe 14,000 years ago, a 2-month-old wolf pup ...

The woolly rhinoceros, illustrated above, is an extinct species of rhinoceros that was common throughout Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene epoch. Scientists recently sequenced the genome ...

Few scientific finds arrive from such an unexpected place. Deep in Siberian permafrost, a frozen wolf puppy has been quietly holding a genetic record for more than 14,400 years. Researchers studying ...

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 ...