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A puppy ate one of the last wholly rinos (before they went exctinct)


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Just before a tiny pup died during the last ice age, it ate a piece of meat from one of Earth's last  woolly rhinos. 

Researchers made this discovery while doing a necropsy (an animal autopsy) on the mummified remains of the ice age puppy. After finding an undigested slab of skin with yellow fur in the puppy's stomach, researchers initially thought the puppy had chewed off a hunk of cave lion meat for its last meal. 

But a DNA analysis of the slab revealed that it wasn't a cave lion (Panthera spelaea), but a woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), which went extinct around 14,000 years ago, right about the time that this pup had its last meal.

Despite this "rhino dinner," predators probably didn't cause the extinction of the woolly rhino, according to Lord's new research. Instead, the culprit was the rapidly warming climate at the end of the last ice age, she and her colleagues found.

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https://www.livescience.com/ice-age-puppy-ate-woolly-rhino.html

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Oriane

Based on the thread title, I thought the puppy had killed and eaten the rhino all by itself and I was so confused :air:

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