Without a resident groundhog, the Milwaukee County Zoo had an eastern black rhino – one of its newest residents – handle its Groundhog Day prediction this year. According to non-scientific tradition, ...

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A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna species, the woolly rhinoceros. When researchers dissected the frozen ...

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal. The woolly rhinoceros, illustrated above, is an extinct ...

Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from an unusual place: the stomach contents of a naturally mummified Pleistocene wolf pup from Siberia. As its ...

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Scientists prepared a high-quality sequence of the giant mammal’s genome based on a specimen preserved in Siberian permafrost. By Ari Daniel It’s not every day that one gets to hold a chunk of hide ...

A fearless muntjac deer weighing just 50 pounds went head-to-head with a nearly two-ton rhinoceros at a zoo in Poland in a caught-on-camera David and Goliath bout for the ages. A caretaker at Wroclaw ...

A true David and Goliath story happened earlier this month at a Polish zoo when a tiny muntjac deer took on a massive 1.7 ton Indian rhino and – against all odds – seemingly won. The video was filmed ...

Animals in captivity can end up with some unusual neighbors —surprising encounters. In a naturalistic rendition of David vs. Goliath, a 28-pound Reeves’s muntjac named Tata, a small deer species ...

An apparent play fight between a tiny deer and massive rhino has been caught on video and dubbed by some media outlets a “David vs. Goliath” confrontation. The accompanying footage, being widely ...