Extinct Animals Discovered

scientists find DNA from a woolly rhinoceros

The DNA of an extinct species is found in a mummified wolf pup's stomach

Two ancient wolf pups found entombed in Siberian permafrost more than a decade ago are revealing new stories, thanks to rich DNA clues preserved inside their bodies.

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Scientists Find Extinct Rhino DNA in Wolf Pup Mummy's Stomach

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What a Wolf Pup’s Stomach Revealed About the Woolly Rhino’s Extinction

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In the stomach of a mummified wolf pup, scientists find DNA from a woolly rhinoceros

Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.

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Ancient wolf stomach reveals final secrets of extinct woolly rhino

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14,000-year-old woolly rhinoceros DNA extracted from wolf’s stomach

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Prehistoric wolf’s gut frozen in time reveals an ice age giant

The research, which published Wednesday in the scientific journal Genome Biology and Evolution, represents the first time that scientists have been able to sequence the entire genome — the whole genet...

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Wolf pup’s stomach yields DNA from one of world’s last surviving woolly rhinos

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The Secrets of an Ancient Hunk of Woolly Rhinoceros Meat

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When Scientists Examined the Contents of a 14,400-Year-Old Ice Age Wolf’s Stomach, They Found a “Woolly” Surprise

When Swedish scientists examined the stomach contents of 14,400-year-old Ice Age wolf remains they discovered DNA from a woolly rhinoceros

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Meet five new species discovered in 2025

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

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Fossil of huge penguin that lived 3 million years ago discovered in New Zealand — what happened to it?

But ancient New Zealand was home to an extinct species of great penguin around three million years ago, during a period in Earth's history known as the mid-Piacenzian Warming Period. (Image credit: CC BY-SA) Three million years ago, Aotearoa's great penguins extended as far north as 40.5°S, where South Taranaki was located then.

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These 23 Animals Have Gone Extinct in the Past 150 Years

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or animal tusks. And sometimes, it’s indirect, including ...