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A 14,000-year-old perfectly preserved puppy munched on a woolly rhino for its last meal – Herald & Review
Scientists studying the body of a preserved Ice Age puppy have made an unexpected discovery — a piece of what could be one of the last woolly rhinos in its
“This puppy, we know already, has been dated to roughly 14,000 years ago. We also know that the woolly rhinoceros goes extinct 14,000 years ago. So, potentially, this puppy has eaten one of the last remaining woolly rhinos,” he said.
Scientists don’t know how the puppy came to have a piece of rhino in its stomach.
Edana Lord, a PhD student at the Centre for Palaeogenetics who co-authored a paper studying the demise of the woolly rhino, said that the creatures would have been roughly the same s…
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