Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The cave hyena, named Crocuta crocuta spelaea, lived for about 1 million years in Eurasia, before dying out some 10,000 to 30,000 years ...

The fascinating part of reconstructing a European woolly rhinoceros’s mitochondrial genome for the first time in history should be the fact that scientists have now ...

Fossilized feces from the Pleistocene epoch have divulged the mitochondrial DNA of a woolly rhinoceros, whose genome had never previously been assembled. The ancient poop was not excreted by an ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

Fossilized human hairs dating backbetween 195,000 and 257,000 years have been found in the poop of brown hyenas at Gladysvale cave in South Africa. According to Lucinda Backwell, who led the study, ...

When John Hammond cooked up the idea for Jurassic Park, he needed the skills of the world’s brightest geneticists and a little help from the fossil record. The earliest additions to the fledgling park ...

Scientists reconstructed the mitochondrial genome of a European Woolly Rhinoceros for the first time. Extracting DNA from fossilized hyena feces was critical to the process. Using the DNA, the team ...