Woolly rhinoceros

The extinct woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) was once common throughout Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene. It may have survived as recently as 10,000 years ago. Although contemporary with the Woolly Mammoths, they never moved across the Bering Strait Land Bridge into North America.

Prehistoric Woolly Rhinoceros. The extinct rhinos depicted in Chauvet cave are famous for black “transverse bands " across their middle. Above are various fur colorations based on the Chauvet drawings.

Too many meta-analyses of extinctions of giant kangaroos or huge sloths usedata that are poor or poorly understood, warn Gilbert J. Price and colleagues.

Ice Age icons were already adapted to harsh climate, new fossils suggest.

Some 80,000 years ago, our planet began to cool, heralding the dawn of the last ice age. The Arctic ice sheets expanded, covering about half of the North American continent. Nevertheless, south of this huge block of ice, life flourished in unexpected ways. This was a land of giants like the Woolly Mammoths, Saber-Toothed Cats, Dire Wolves, Giant Ground Sloths, and Glyptodonts. In the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, however, the story was quite different. These lands had their own class of…

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Analysis shows that the now-extinct beast split into two populations almost half a million years ago.