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woolly rhinoceros
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Noun1.woolly rhinoceros - extinct thick-haired species of Arctic regionswoolly rhinoceros - extinct thick-haired species of Arctic regions
Rhinoceros antiquitatis
rhino, rhinoceros - massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout
genus Rhinoceros - type genus of the Rhinocerotidae
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According to a report in Discovery News, the new findings by Martina Pacher, a paleontologist at the University of Vienna, and colleagues, suggest that cave bears were one of the first in a series of large animals to disappear from Europe, including woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, and giant deer.
Cave bears went extinct due to climate change 27,800 years ago by Asian News International
The glacier came forth, then retreated, then things improved slightly in the period called the Third Glaciation when the ice cap didn't cover the county but left it as open tundra, over which roamed herds of bison and reindeer, horse, giant ox, hyena, wolves, bears, woolly rhinoceroses and mammoths.
When crocodiles swam in the Avon; COVENTRY: The making of a city by McGrory, David / Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
The most commonly portrayed creatures are woolly rhinoceroses, lions, and bears, as well as a smaller number of mammoths, oxen, horses, and wild cats.
French cave yields stone age art gallery by Bower, B. / Science News
 
 
 
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