Ice Age Beasts In Europe: Migration Of The Woolly Rhinoceros Earlier Than Assumed
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 23:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The newly described skull of the oldest woolly rhinoceros in Europe shows that these giant creatures -- with two impressively large horns on the bridge of their noses -- once roamed across central Germany. The large shaggy mammals grazed at the foot of the Kyffhäuser range, whose unforested, rocky slopes loomed out of the broad, bleak plains of northern Thuringia 460,000 years ago. The climate at this time was icy cold and far drier than today.