For most people, an extinct species is an abstraction, a set of bones they might have seen on display in a museum. For Gennady Boeskorov, they are things he has interacted with directly, studying ...

The woolly rhinoceros is the less-famous counterpart to fellow mega-herbivore, the woolly mammoth. The prehistoric animals' shared namesake, a thick coat of fur, is a survival trait that came in handy ...

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A lifelike restoration using the remains of a baby woolly rhinoceros recovered from the Siberian permafrost. The specimen was nicknamed Sasha after the hunter who discovered it. Albert Protopopov Some ...

The mummy had an undigested piece of woolly rhino in its stomach. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Just before a tiny pup died ...

Although overhunting led to the demise of some prehistoric megafauna after the last ice age, a new study found that the extinction of the woolly rhinoceros may have been caused by climate change. By ...

A remarkably well-preserved woolly rhinoceros was discovered near the Tirekhtyakh River in Russia’s Sakha Republic. The frozen carcass dates back to 32,400 years. A team of researchers led by Gennady ...

Rather than getting wiped out by Ice Age hunters, woolly rhinos charged to extinction in Siberia around 14,000 years ago when the climate turned warm and wet, a study of ancient DNA suggests. Numbers ...

Scientists studying the remains of ancient woolly rhinos have discovered that climate change, not human hunting, led to their demise. The timeline that suggested humans were responsible for the ...

A local resident stumbled upon the remains of the 19,700-year-old beast. Its record-breaking horn offers new insights into life in the Ice Age. Horn of the 19,700-year-old woolly rhinoceros found in ...

Researchers found the carcass in August 2020 in Russia's Sakha Republic, and the discovery has revealed a never-before-seen characteristic of woolly rhinos: a fatty hump on the animal's back. When you ...