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By: Woolly Rhino May Have Been A Tibetan Native | Surprising Science

Woolly Rhino May Have Been A Tibetan Native | Surprising Science — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:41:57 +0000

[...] A team of geologists and paleontologists found a complete skull and lower jaw of a new species of woolly rhinoceros, which they named Coelodonta thibetana, in the high-altitude Zanda Basin at the foothills of the Himalayas in southwestern Tibet. The fossil dates to about 3.7 million years ago, the middle Pliocene. The scientists posit that the woolly rhino evolved there in the cold, high-elevation conditions of Tibet and when the Ice Age began, 2.6 million years ago, it descended from its mountainous home and spread throughout northern Asia and Europe. [...]

By: lee reece

lee reece — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:41:36 +0000

looks like a aardvark to me.

By: Laurie Stephenson

Laurie Stephenson — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:38:42 +0000

Doesn’t this look to be a Mammoth instead??

By: WilliamB

WilliamB — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:46:43 +0000

“Based on their style”

I would like to know more about this. Discussions of artistic style bring to mind the various “schools” of, say, Renaissance Art, but that implies wide-spread communication which, I dare say, did not exist in prehistoric times.

By: Brendan Borrell

Brendan Borrell — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:52:16 +0000

Who needs Jurassic Park? We often laugh at those old movies showing cavemen fighting off dinosaurs, which went extinct tens of millions of years before man showed up on the scene. But the real Pleistocene megafauna our ancestors dealt with were no less ferocious. I’d love to see a film accurately depict gomphotheres, ground sloths, mammoths, and saber-tooth tigers.