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Prehistoric life

Woolly rhinoceros

Coelodonta antiquitatis

Woolly rhinoceros
Photo: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

At a glance

Scientific name
Coelodonta antiquitatis
Continent
Europe, Asia
Group
Mammal
Period
Quaternary (Ice Age)
Diet
Herbivore
Length
Medium (3–9 m)
Moves
On four legs
Feature
Horns
Difficulty in WildGuessr
Medium

Did you know?

  • Cave painters drew woolly rhinos on the walls of Chauvet Cave in France over 30,000 years ago.
  • Frozen woolly rhinos with skin and fur still on them have been found in the Siberian permafrost.

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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q188949 · All prehistoric life · All entries