Tag: Late Pleistocene
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Woolly Rhino Genome Hidden in a Frozen Wolf’s Stomach: A Paleogenomics Breakthrough
Discovery and the Extraordinary Find In a remarkable turn of paleogenomics, researchers have recovered a woolly rhino genome from the gut of a frozen wolf pup discovered in northeastern Siberia. The mummified wolf, preserved in permafrost for about 14,400 years, offered a rare window into the ecosystems of late Ice Age Siberia and the complex…
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First-of-its-Kind ‘Butt Drag Fossil’ Discovered in South Africa by a Fuzzy Elephant Relative 126,000 Years Ago
Scientists in South Africa have announced a groundbreaking fossil find that reads like a scene from a prehistoric diary: a remarkably preserved fossilized impression described as a “butt drag fossil,” left by a fuzzy, elephant-sized relative of today’s hyraxes around 126,000 years ago. The discovery, unearthed in a rocky South African landscape, offers rare physical…