Prehistoric wolf’s gut frozen in time reveals an ice age giant
On the vast expanse of the Siberian steppe 14,000 years ago, a 2-month-old wolf pup gobbled down some…
You Won’t Believe Where Scientists Found a 14,400-Year-Old Woolly Rhino Genome
Yesterday’s lunch can sometimes be tomorrow’s scientific discovery, even if yesterday was actually 14,000 years in the past.…
How Fearsome Wolves Became Loyal Dogs — and Changed Human History Forever
The dog diverged from a now-extinct population of wolves 27,000–40,000 years ago, before or during the Last Glacial…
Were Ancient Wolves And Bronze Age Humans Each Other’s Friends?
Wolf bones unearthed on a tiny island in the Baltic Sea were found to be thousands of years…
“Tropical Mammoth” Fossils Found In Mexico, But Some Researchers Say They Should Be Classified As An Entirely New Species » TwistedSifter
Shutterstock Mammoths are one of the most famous ancient animals, right up there with dinosaurs. This ancient mammal…
140,000-year-old fossil shows human–Neanderthal interbreeding
An international research team has identified the earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens traits. The skeleton,…
The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years | Genome Biology
Gómez-Carballa, A., Olivieri, A., Behar, D.M., Achilli, A., Torroni, A., and Salas, A. . Genetic Continuity in the…