![]() Interestingly, its nasal horn was composed of keratin (the same material that composes human finger nails), not bone. ![]() A member of the Pleistocene megafauna, this creature survived the last glacial period. Its massive horns are thought to have been used to sweep away snow to forage for vegetation and possibly to attract mates. ![]() Other evolutionary attributes included small ears, short, thick legs and a stocky body. A paleontological reminder of the vast sheets of ice that covered much of the Northern Hemisphere, the woolly rhino, like the mastodon, exhibited a long shaggy coat. Native to the northern steppes of Eurasia, the extinct woolly rhinoceros was one of the largest animals to inhabit the vast Arctic tundra of the Pleistocene, second in size only to the mammoth. Jeneisey River, Krasnovarsk region, Southern Siberia, Russia
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