Pleistocene Ice Age Animals

Ice Age, woolly rhinoceros and genome

"We need to do some genetics on this": World-first as entire woolly rhino genome recovered from Ice Age wolf pup's stomach

Analysis of the genome of a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), recovered from the stomach of an ancient wolf, shows the species probably died out very quickly alongside a dramatic shift in climate.

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Researchers recover a woolly rhino genome from inside a frozen wolf's stomach

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Woolly rhino remains found in Ice Age wolf give clue to species’ end

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In the stomach of a mummified wolf pup, scientists find DNA from a woolly rhinoceros

Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.

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Scientists Find Extinct Rhino DNA in Wolf Pup Mummy's Stomach

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What a Wolf Pup’s Stomach Revealed About the Woolly Rhino’s Extinction

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14,000-year-old woolly rhinoceros DNA extracted from wolf’s stomach

“Sequencing the entire genome of an Ice Age animal found in the stomach of another animal has never been done before,” Camilo Chacón-Duque, a study co-author and paleogenomicist at Stockholm Universit...

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Prehistoric wolf’s gut frozen in time reveals an ice age giant

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

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Digging up Ice Age fossils from the bottom of a river

It finally happened. We teamed up for a classic day of SCUBA diving in a Florida river in search of Ice Age fossils. These waters date back to the Pleistocene, between 1.8 million and 10,000 years old.

Phys.org

News on ice-age-animals

Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, survived in central Europe far longer than previously assumed. Analyses of bone finds demonstrate that hippos inhabited the Upper Rhine Graben sometime between approximately ... During the transitional period ...

WPXI

Temporary Pittsburgh Zoo exhibit takes guests to the Ice Age, brings extinct animals back to life

PITTSBURGH — A new temporary exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium takes visitors back in time to come face-to-face with incredible extinct animals. Ice Age: Frozen in Time runs from April 14 through Sept. 1. It’s set 2.58 million years back in time ...

Forbes

How ‘Prehistoric Planet’ Rebuilds The Ice Age With Cutting-Edge Tech

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. The Ice Age tends to get flattened into a postcard: endless white, a few mammoths, maybe a saber-toothed cat. Prehistoric ...