Ice Age Mammals: The Woolly Rhino

Painting: Charles R. Knight, H. Osborn, 1916


Many of the world's largest mammals became extinct after the last ice age. One of these mammals was the woolly rhinoceros. Its scientific name is Coelodonta (see-loh-DON-tah).


The woolly rhino was native to the northern regions of Europe and Asia. Scientists disagree on whether this prehistoric mammal was a grazer or a browser. (Grazers eat mostly grass, and browsers eat mostly leaves.) It was definitely a plant-eater (herbivore). It ate whatever was available in the cold, dry steppe-tundra of Eurasia.


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