Animals Of The Stone Age: A List Of Stone Age Animals With Pictures & Facts
Woolly Rhinoceros
Woolly Rhino
Image: Mr Langlois10, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped / resized by ActiveWild.com)
Where found: Europe, Asia
The woolly rhinoceros, scientific name Coelodonta antiquitatis, was a stone-age member of the rhinoceros family Rhinocerotidae. It roamed the cold grassland biome known as the Mammoth Steppe that covered much of Europe at the end of the Pleistocene.
A similar size to today’s white rhino, the woolly rhino was covered in hair and had two horns on its nose. The longer front horn grew up to 1.4 m / 4.6 ft in length.
While humans are known to have hunted the woolly rhinoceros, it is thought that a warming climate, rather than hunting, caused the extinction of this cold-climate specialist.
Woolly Rhino
Image: Mr Langlois10, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped / resized by ActiveWild.com)
Where found: Europe, Asia
The woolly rhinoceros, scientific name Coelodonta antiquitatis, was a stone-age member of the rhinoceros family Rhinocerotidae. It roamed the cold grassland biome known as the Mammoth Steppe that covered much of Europe at the end of the Pleistocene.
A similar size to today’s white rhino, the woolly rhino was covered in hair and had two horns on its nose. The longer front horn grew up to 1.4 m / 4.6 ft in length.
While humans are known to have hunted the woolly rhinoceros, it is thought that a warming climate, rather than hunting, caused the extinction of this cold-climate specialist.
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18 January 2024
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