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Woolly rhino genome recovered from meat in frozen wolf pup’s stomach


A piece of woolly rhinoceros flesh hidden inside a wolf that died 14,400 years ago has yielded genetic information that improves our understanding of why one of the most iconic megafauna species of the last glacial period went extinct

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