BREAKING: Another extinct ice age beast exhumed from the permafrost. Exceptionally well-preserved carcass of a juvenile woolly rhinoceros discovered in Yakutia.

Outliving the Ice Age: Tale of a rhinoceros Date: June 29, 2010 Source: Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Summary: Species extinction is a fundamental part of evolution ...

The woolly rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis) roamed Eurasia in the Pleistocene until its extinction around 10,000 years ago.Several specimens have since been recovered, but until now, no genomes of ...

The extinction of prehistoric megafauna like the woolly mammoth, cave lion, and woolly rhinoceros at the end of the last ice age has often been attributed to the spread of early humans across the ...

Prehistoric humans have been considered responsible for the extinction of several iconic ice age mammals, including the woolly mammoth, saber-toothed tiger, and woolly rhino. These “megafauna ...

When we think of the last 50,000 years of prehistory, particularly the “Ice Age”, extinct species such as the woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros often spring to mind. Did humans bring about ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN Mammoths and other giant creatures of the Ice Age such as woolly rhinos survived longer than scientists thought, coexisting with humans for tens of thousands of years before ...

Woolly rhinos went extinct at the end of the last ice age in Siberia about 14,000 years ago, and now ancient DNA is helping to shed light on what really happened to them and other large mammals.

Shaggy, big plant-eaters and other cold-tolerant animals likely first evolved in Tibet during the Ice Age. A newly found species of woolly rhino from Tibet had a head that worked like a snow shovel.

"E. sibiricum was thought to have become extinct by 200,000 years ago, although recent, unconfirmed reports suggested that it might have persisted into the late Pleistocene, the researchers wrote ...

Mammoths and other giant creatures of the Ice Age such as woolly rhinos survived longer than scientists thought, coexisting with humans for tens of thousands years before they vanished for good.