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14,400-Year-Old Woolly Rhinoceros Genome Shows No Evidence of Recent Inbreeding


The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is a cold-adapted herbivore that went extinct around 14,000 years ago, but little is known about their population decline prior to extinction.

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