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High-quality woolly rhino genome recovered from tissue in ancient wolf pup’s stomach — Static01.nyt.com

High-quality woolly rhino genome recovered from tissue in ancient wolf pup’s stomach

Researchers produced a high-quality genome sequence of a woolly rhinoceros from a piece of partially digested hide recovered from the stomach of an ancient wolf pup preserved in northeast Siberian permafrost; both animals are some 14,400 years old, the team reported in Genome Biology and Evolution. The hide yielded

Arctic wildfires are becoming larger, hotter and more frequent, researchers say — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Arctic wildfires are becoming larger, hotter and more frequent, researchers say

NASA researchers report that the number of wildland fires in the Arctic is rising, and that these blazes are burning larger, hotter and longer than in previous decades, a trend detailed in a 2025 report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). The report ties the change to rapid