Fossil skull of woolly rhinoceros

Fossil skull of woolly rhinoceros

The woolly rhinoceros is a mammal belonging to the family Rhinocerotidae in the order Neodactyla. The woolly rhinoceros is an extinct species of rhinoceros, named after its thick and dense fur covering its entire body. The woolly rhinoceros has strong bones, a long and large skull, and a head and neck that droops downwards; There is a rhinoceros horn on both the forehead and nose bones. The woolly rhinoceros has a body length of about 4 meters and a shoulder height of about 2 meters. It is covered with warm long hair and thick fur, and has a thick layer of fat under its skin. Like mammoths, they are all ice age animals that adapted to the cold climate and have traveled throughout the northern part of the Eurasian continent. They mainly inhabit the Eurasian grasslands and feed on shrubs and grasses grown in cold climates.