{"id":244665,"date":"2026-01-14T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244665\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:44:09","slug":"cardiff-university-scientists-study-woolly-rhino-dna-found-inside-ice-age-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244665\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff University scientists study woolly rhino DNA found inside Ice Age wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The genetic material came from a fragment of preserved tissue found during the autopsy of the wolf, which lived around 14,400 years ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">DNA testing later confirmed the tissue belonged to a woolly rhinoceros &#8211; one of the youngest specimens of the species ever identified &#8211; and the sample initially caused confusion in the laboratory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr David Stanton, a researcher at Cardiff University&#8217;s School of Biosciences, said: &#8220;It was a very unusual specimen to work on in the lab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was initially identified as a piece of cave line tissue, so it was quite a surprise when the genetic analysis showed that it was actually a woolly rhinoceros.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added it was then researchers realised &#8220;how unique the specimen was&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The date estimate, very close to when woolly rhinos went extinct, made it incredibly valuable for understanding how and why so many species went extinct at the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The genetic material came from a fragment of preserved tissue found during the autopsy of the wolf, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-244665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}