A pup preserved in ice for thousands of years has been found to have eaten one of the last woolly rhinos that ever walked the Earth.Researchers found the chunk of ancient rhino meat while examining its the realms of the ancient puppy’s stomach.DNA analysis of the undigested slab of skin with yellow fur revealed it was a woolly rhino and not a cave lion as had first been thought.The great beast, which roamed the ice sheets of Asia and Europe some 14,000 years ago – roughly when the pup had its last meal.Edna Lord, a doctoral student centre for palaeogenics in Sweden, said it means the puppy ate one of the very last woolly rhinos that ever existed.Her findings were published in the science journal Current Biology that looked into the.
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