{"id":237946,"date":"2026-01-14T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/237946\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:19:09","slug":"cardiff-university-scientists-study-woolly-rhino-dna-found-inside-ice-age-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/237946\/","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":237947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-237946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}