The woolly rhinoceros; Coelodonta, is well known from plentiful fossil, subfossil and
mummified remains, as well as from specimens frozen in ice, and also the cave paintings
and remnant tools, utensils and ornaments of Neanderthal people and our own prehistoric
ancestors. Like the woolly mammoth, its long, coarse hair kept out the snow and wind on
the tundra and steppe of the recent Ice Ages. The woolly rhino probably originated in East
Asia about 350,000 years ago and spread to Europe, but ,it never reached North America.
It survived.in some areas to -perhaps just 10,000 years ago.The front horn reached a length
ofmore than Im/31.ft in older males.