Sep 2026
Paleogenomics and habitat modeling reveal temperate Eurasian origins of woolly rhinoceroses.
The woolly rhinoceros was a prominent Ice Age megafaunal species, and there is limited knowledge regarding its origin and responses to past glacial cycles. We sequenced 29 mitochondrial and 14 nuclear genomes from Pleistocene specimens across Eurasia and modeled the species' habitats over the past 500,000 years. Our re...
X. Lei, J. Ruan, Xue Liang et al.
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