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The wooly rhino was one of the most widespread and iconic megafauna species of the Ice Age, along with mammoths, wooly mammoths, and saber-toothed cats. It had a thick coat of fur, two massive horns on its nose, and a hump on its back. It went extinct around 14,000 years ago, possibly due to climate change and human hunting.
The researchers analyzed two coprolites from the Middle Paleolithic, around 300,000 to 30,000 years ago that were found in Germany and stored in museum collections. They used a unique tool to extract material inside the coprolites, prepared the DNA for reading, and ran the results through a DNA sequencer.and compared them with other genomes, both modern and ancient. They found that the wooly rhino DNA belonged to a European lineage that had split from the Siberian lineage sometime between 2.
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