Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more ...

While rhino species evolved and increased in size over 50 million years, their bones may have strained to support their massive and active bodies, according to a study published February 3, 2016 ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

How 700,000-Year-Old Rhino Bones Could Change the Story of Human Migration. The find could put human ancestors in Southeast Asia long before Homo sapiens were even a species.

The fossil in question, identified as the astragalus (ankle bone) of an extinct rhinoceros belonging to the genus Stephanorhinus, was discovered during excavations in the 1970s at the archaeological ...

The woolly rhino was described for the first time in 1769 — over a century after the "unicorn bones" were unearthed — by naturalist Peter Simon Pallas.

Siberian cave filled with mammoth, rhino and bear bones is ancient hyena lair. News. By Kristin Hugo published 30 June 2023 The cave has been untouched for around 42,000 years.

Woolly rhino fossils are abundant, but their mummies are exceedingly rare. To date, there have only been a handful of nearly complete woolly rhinos (although news of another has been recently ...