9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (190+ words) It was an extraordinary chain of circumstances that allowed paleontologists a unique glimpse into the past. About 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup fed on the meat of a woolly rhinoceros and died shortly afterward itself. Thanks to rapid preservation in…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (342+ words) What for decades was considered a sensational Ice Age discovery has now turned out to be a mistake. Bone remains that researchers had previously attributed to young woolly mammoths actually come from whales. Only through the use of modern DNA…...