Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now.
Analysis of woolly rhinoceros DNA recovered from the permafrost-preserved wolf further hints that the Ice Age beasts went ...
The digested meat from the wolf pup’s last meal, which took place a staggering 14,400 years ago, contained enough DNA from ...
Hydrogen cyanide, a toxic chemical, may have helped spark the chemistry that led to life. When frozen, it forms crystals with ...
"Our IFPA map of Antarctica’s subglacial landscape reveals that an enormous level of detail about the subglacial topography of Antarctica can be inverted from satellite observations of the ice surface ...
Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.
Research built on hundreds of years of storm activity records showed that typhoons were most frequent in the 17th century ...
Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.
Researchers have sequenced the genome of a woolly rhinoceros from undigested meat found in the stomach of a wolf puppy ...
Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.
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 ...
The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ...