Woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), skeleton on display.
Fossils indicate that the woolly rhinoceros was about 3.0 to 3.8 meters (10 to 12.5 feet) in length, with a height of two meters (six feet) at the shoulder, and a weight of up to three tons (IRF). It had two horns on its snout, the anterior one larger than the one between its eyes and about one meter (three feet) long. The front and larger horn also had a flattened shape from side to side (IRF). Both projections on the upper snout were not really true horns, but epidermal derivatives, composed of a solid mass of thickly matted hair—keratin, a hair protein—that grows from the skull without skeletal support.
The woolly rhinoceros had thick, long fur, small ears, short and thick legs, and a stocky body. The fur consisted of two kinds of hair, with both a thin dense undercoat and a long, rigid covering (IRF). Cave paintings suggest a wide dark band between the front and hind legs, but it is not universal in drawings; identification of rhinoceros as woolly rhinoceros is uncertain. Abrasion marks on the horns of woolly rhinoceros fossils suggest that the horns were used to sweep snow away from vegetation so it could eat in the winter.
Woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), skeleton on display.
Fossils indicate that the woolly rhinoceros was about 3.0 to 3.8 meters (10 to 12.5 feet) in length, with a height of two meters (six feet) at the shoulder, and a weight of up to three tons (IRF). It had two horns on its snout, the anterior one larger than the one between its eyes and about one meter (three feet) long. The front and larger horn also had a flattened shape from side to side (IRF). Both projections on the upper snout were not really true horns, but epidermal derivatives, composed of a solid mass of thickly matted hair—keratin, a hair protein—that grows from the skull without skeletal support.
The woolly rhinoceros had thick, long fur, small ears, short and thick legs, and a stocky body. The fur consisted of two kinds of hair, with both a thin dense undercoat and a long, rigid covering (IRF). Cave paintings suggest a wide dark band between the front and hind legs, but it is not universal in drawings; identification of rhinoceros as woolly rhinoceros is uncertain.รอยขีดข่วนบนเขาขนแรดฟอสซิลชี้ให้เห็นว่าเขาถูกใช้ให้กวาดหิมะ ห่างจากต้นไม้ดังนั้นจึงสามารถรับประทานในหน้าหนาว
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