An Ancient Wolf Cub’s Last Meal Just Rewrote The Woolly Rhino Extinction Story
From ScienceAlert.com:
The last meal eaten by a wolf cub before its demise, some 14,400 years ago, has yielded new insight into how the woolly rhinoceros disappeared from this world.
A previous analysis of the stomach contents of a cub found in the Siberian permafrost in 2011 revealed a belly full of woolly rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis) meat close to the time of the rhino’s extinction. Now, geneticists have sequenced the rhino’s genome – and found no evidence of long-term population decline or inbreeding.
