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In today’s Discovery: Here are five myths about renewable energy you’re probably getting wrong, the mating rituals of dinosaurs were bone-crushing, this athlete is on the verge of breaking another world record in the North Pole, and can the moon be turned into a gas station?

But first: You’ll never believe where a woolly rhino’s ancient DNA was found.

The woolly rhinoceros is an extinct species of rhinoceros that was common throughout Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene epoch.

Philip Brownlow, Stocktrek Images/Alamy Stock Photo

It’s the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered in this surprising way—and the finding is giving us more clues about how woolly rhinos went extinct.

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Solar panels catch sunlight at an electric plant in southern Spain, 2008.

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Busting the 5 biggest myths about renewable energy

Inside the bone-crushing mating rituals of dinosaurs

Meet the man who’s about to break another world record in the North Pole

To explore space, scientists want to turn the moon into a gas station

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