About 14,400 years ago, a weeks-old wolf puppy ate its last meal – meat from a woolly rhinoceros – shortly before dying on the harsh Ice Age landscape of northeastern Siberia.
In a first, researchers have extracted DNA and recovered the rhino's genome from a chunk of undigested meat from the stomach contents found in the puppy's remains, discovered in permafrost near the village of Tumat. These genome findings provided insight into the fate of this impressive cold-adapted horned herbivore species once common in northern Europe and Asia.
