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When a team of Russian researchers analyzed the remains of a preserved 14,000-year-old puppy, they saw an unusual patch of fur in the abdomen. After a few mitochondrial DNA reference checks, the team was surprised that the fur belonged to a woolly rhinoceros – ‘an almost perfect match.’ The puppy …

At least twice in Earth’s history, almost the entire planet was locked in a layer of snow and ice. These dramatic “Snowball Earth” events occurred in rapid succession, somewhere around 700 million years ago, and evidence suggests that consecutive global glaciations set the stage for the subsequent explosion of complex, …