Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

The findings, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, show that woolly rhinos remained "genetically healthy" until the end of the last Ice Age. Scientists say the species therefore probably died out due to a rapid collapse of the population, rather than a slow demographic decline.

Exceptionally preserved RNA from a Siberian mammoth offers rare insight into gene activity, biology, and Ice Age survival strategies.

The answer to how the woolly rhinoceros became extinct may have just been found in the stomach of one of its fiercest

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable radiocarbon dating, scientists discovered that common hippos ...