Woolly Rhinoceros

Also known as Woolly Rhino, Pleistocene Rhinoceros

Woolly rhinoceroses were cold-adapted grazers that roamed the vast mammoth steppe across northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene epoch. A thick, reddish-brown double coat and a dense layer of subcutaneous fat insulated them against bitter glacial winters, while a prominent shoulder hump anchored powerful muscles supporting their massive, keeled nasal horns. Frozen mummies recovered from Siberian permafrost show worn front horn edges, indicating these herbivores actively swept snow aside to forage on winter grasses and sedges.