The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), simply known as woolly rhino, is an extinct species of rhinoceros that inhabited northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene epoch. The woolly rhinoceros was a member of the Pleistocene megafauna. The woolly rhinoceros was covered with long, thick hair that allowed it to survive in the extremely cold, harsh mammoth steppe. It had a massive hump reaching from its shoulder and fed mainly on herbaceous plants that grew in the steppe. Mummified carcasses preserved in permafrost and many bone remains of woolly rhinoceroses have been found. Images of woolly rhinoceroses are found among cave paintings in Europe and Asia. The species range contracted towards Siberia beginning around 17,000 years ago, with the youngest known records being around 14,000 years old in northeast Siberia, coinciding with the Bølling–Allerød warming, which likely disrupted its habitat.
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the Pleistocene epochs. It is best known from the type species, the woollyrhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), which ranged throughout northern Eurasia...
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to the woollyrhinoceros than the Sumatran rhinoceros. A 2023 morphological study suggested its closest relative was the narrow-nosed rhinoceros (S. hemitoechus)...
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horses, antelope, and bison. Ice age mammals like the mammoths and woollyrhinoceros were common in Pliocene. With lower levels of CO2 in the atmosphere...
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preyed on large mammals (primarily wild horses, steppe bison and woollyrhinoceros), and was responsible for the accumulation of hundreds of large Pleistocene...
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the woollyrhinoceros) than to the type species D. schleiermacheri. Morphological phylogeny after Pandolfi (2023), excluding living African rhinoceros species...
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roe deer, fallow deer, wild boar, ibex, steppe wisent, aurochs, and woollyrhinoceros. Spotted hyenas are thought to be responsible for the dis-articulation...
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