Outliving the Ice Age: Tale of a rhinoceros

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 09:20 in Biology & Nature

Species dying out is an entirely natural process. It is a fundamental process of evolution: Survival of the fittest - the best adapted species survives. The Ice Age expert Professor Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke from the Senckenberg Research Institute, Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology Weimar and the palaeocologist PD Dr Thomas M. Kaiser from the University of Hamburg, Biocentre Grindel now present a study in the specialist journal Quaternary Science Reviews that shows why, after 800,000 years of successful survival of a species of rhinoceros, the Hundsheim rhino (Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis) literally suddenly and irrecoverably disappeared...

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