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The origins of woolly rhinos, explained

Adam Khor · 2019-07-27 20:00:16

A new species of woolly rhino has been found in Tibet; it lived earlier than the classic Coelodonta antiquitatis and is probably its ancestor. The interesting thing is that Coelodonta tibethana lived at a time when the world was warmer, and was adapted to life in the high, cold Tibethan Plateau. It seems that this…

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A new species of woolly rhino has been found in Tibet; it lived earlier than the classic Coelodonta antiquitatis and is probably its ancestor. The interesting thing is that Coelodonta tibethana lived at a time when the world was warmer, and was adapted to life in the high, cold Tibethan Plateau. It seems that this discovery explains the origins of woolly rhinos; when the Ice Age arrived, Tibethan rhinos were happy to pack their bags and conquer the world so to speak; they didn´t evolve for the Ice Age, they simply were already very well equiped to survive in it.

http://news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-rhino-ice-age-tibet-110901.html

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