Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The woolly rhinoceros, illustrated above, is an extinct species of rhinoceros that was common throughout Europe and northern Asia ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2011, mammoth ivory hunters in northeastern Siberia discovered a mummified wolf puppy that had lain frozen for 14,400 years. An autopsy of the permafrost-preserved pup revealed another surprise: ...