Woolly rhinoceros - Woolly rhinoceros - Woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), also known as cloisonnee nostrils,...

Woolly rhinoceros - Woolly rhinoceros - Woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), also known as cloisonnee nostrils, was a species of large rhinoceros (1.6 to 2 metres high at withers and up to 3.5 metres long, weighing 2 to 3 tonnes) characterized by A thick woolly fleece. He lived in the cold steppes which covered in Pleistocene much of Eurasia. At its peak, less than 30,000 years ago, it was found from central Spain and southern England to Mongolia and southern Siberia. A woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) wanders the snow-covered terrain of Northern Europe 200 thousand years ago. In the foreground is a common rabbit of the family Leporidae. About the size, and maybe a little larger, than today's white rhinoceros, the woolly rhinoceros is believed to be related to the modern Sumatran rhinoceros. Covered with thick fur (AKA pelage), this stocky herbivore was well-suited to the cold climates associated with the Pleistocene glaciations. Woolly rhinoceros remains have been found dating as far back as 3.6 million years and as recent as 8,000 years ago. Cave paintings featuring the woolly rhinoceros have been identified; human and Neanderthal hunting, along with climate change, may have contributed to its extinction