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  Rhinoceros - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Several rhinoceros species became extinct within geologically recent times, notably the Giant Unicorn and the Woolly Rhinoceros in Eurasia: the extent to which climate change or human predation was responsible is debated.
Rhinoceros horns are used in traditional Asian medicine, and for dagger handles in Yemen and Oman.
None of the five rhinoceros species have secure futures: the White Rhino is perhaps the least endangered, the Javanese Rhino survives in only tiny numbers (estimated at 60 animals in 2002) and is one of the two or three most endangered large mammals anywhere in the world.
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 Rhinoceros -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A rhinoceros (commonly called a rhino for short) is any of five surviving species of (Placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot) odd-toed ungulate in the ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera) family Rhinocerotidae.
Rhinoceros horns are used in traditional Asian medicine, and for dagger handles in (A republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990) Yemen and (A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula; the economy is dominated by oil) Oman.
Rhinoceros horns, unlike those of other horned mammals, consist of densely compacted (Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss) hair.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Rh/Rhinoceros.htm   (875 words)

  
 Rhinoceros   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A rhinoceros is any of five surviving species of odd-toed ungulate in the family Rhinocerotidae.
There are two living Rhinocerotini species, the endangered Indian Rhinoceros and the critically endangered Javan Rhinoceros, which diverged from one another about 10 million years go.
The extinct Wooly Rhinoceros of northern Europe and Asia was also a member of this tribe.
www.encyclopedia-1.com /r/rh/rhinoceros.html   (408 words)

  
 WOOLY RHINO TOOTH TEETH
The Wooly rhino grew to 11 feet in length and stood 6 feet at its shoulders.
Wooly rhinoceros are clearly shown in cave paintings made by Neanderthals in southern France around 30,000 years ago.
The Sumatran rhinoceros is thought to have been stranded on the island of Sumatra during the retreat of the last ice sheet.
www.paleodirect.com /lm12002.htm   (584 words)

  
 Wooly Rhinoceros on About Animals!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pleistocene - Coelodonta - Wooly rhinoceros Pleistocene mammal Coelodonta antiqiuitatis by paleo-artist Josef Moravec.
WOOLY WOOLLY RHINO Rare and in such excellent preservation, this thoracic vertebra from a Wooly rhinoceros Coelodonta would be a great representative specimen to
Wooly Rhinoceros Wooly Rhinoceros Woolly Rhino mammals, the woolly rhinoceros did not manage to migrate across the Bering Strait into North America.
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The woolly rhino was an herbivore that grazed moderate grasslands and tundra.
Well-preserved wooly rhino remains were found frozen in ice in the Ukraine.
The closest living relative to the wooly rhino is the Sumatran rhinoceros.
www.priweb.org /ed/ICTHOL/ICTHOL02_peer_review_papers/42.html   (544 words)

  
 Woolly Rhinoceros
The Woolly Rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is an extinct species of rhinoceros that survived the last ice age.
It lived on the northern steppes of Eurasia, whereas its relative the Giant Unicorn had a more southern range.
A close relative, the Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), still survives in South-East Asia, but is highly endangered.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Wooly_Rhinoceros   (195 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
According to recent research from the University at Buffalo, "the modern animal that has no predators in the wild, except for man, is the rhinoceros and that probably was the case as long as nine million years ago".
''Woolly Rhinoceros ''Coelodonta antiquitatis'' (extinct) {{Taxobox_end}} A '''rhinoceros''' (commonly called a '''rhino''' for short) is any of five surviving species of odd-toed ungulate in the family (biology) family '''Rhinocerotidae'''.
White rinos have broad flat lips for grazing and fl rinos have long pointed lips for eating foliage, The name White Rhinoceros was actually a mistake for wide because of their lips.
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 Wooly Rhinoceros
The wooly rhinoceros is a large herbivore of the Pleistocene era, almost as big as an elephant.
This wooly rhino is slightly larger and stronger than a normal rhino, about 15 feet long on average.
The wooly rhinoceros is a very defensive herbivore, and attacks any intruders into its territory.
www.enworld.org /cc/converted/beast/wooly_rhinoceros.htm   (237 words)

  
 Woolly Rhino
Woolly rhinoceros are clearly shown in the cave paintings of early humans.
Unlike the horns of cows, rhino horns are made of fused, fibrous constructions that are solid throughout and are not hollow with a bone core.
The Sumatran rhinoceros, stranded on the island of Sumatra during the retreat of the last ice sheet, is covered with a fairly dense coat of hair and is believed to be the closest living relative of the woolly rhinoceros.
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 Ancestral Art: Information on Prehistoric Cultures in France
The prehistoric wooly rhinoceros, Rhinoceros tichorhinus also known as Coelodonta antiquitatis, was an impressive beast.
The coat was a wooly fleece which provided protection against the cold, as did its partitioned nostrils which prewarm incoming air while extracting heat from the outgoing.
Despite its fierce demeanor and appearnce, the prehistoric rhinoceros, like its modern cousin, was a vegetarian, and lived on willow leaves, conifer branches, and steppe plants.
www.ancestral.com /cultures/europe/france.html   (5703 words)

  
 Rhinoceroses
Modern Rhinoceroses are the descendants of the Wooly Rhinoceros that had a thick and shaggy fur and inhabited the large range from Siberia to the British Isles.
The Rhinoceros has always been hunted for its horn that is used in traditional medicine, ornamental carving, and for ceremonial daggers' hilts in Asia, Middle East and Africa.
Black rhinoceros information can be obtained from conservation farms along with a photo, if requested.
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 I've seen a few mentions of mammoths, +quot;frozen so quickly that the grass in their mout
In fact, the healthy, robust condition of the cadavers and their full stomachs argue against death by _slow_ freezing.
Most of the remains are associated with river valleys and with fluviatile and terrestial sediments, but whether the mammoths bogged down in marshy places or fell into 'riparian gulies' or were mired in and slowly buried by sticky mudflows is not clear...in Siberia only mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses have been found frozen and preserved...
That only the bulky and awkward 'giants' of the fauna are so preserved points to some pecularity in their physique as a contributing factor...the mammoth, with his stiff-legged mode of locomotion would have difficulty on such [Siberian] terrain and moreover would not be able to cross even small gullies.
www.skepticfiles.org /evolut/mammoth0.htm   (735 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
date = 1807}} {{Taxobox_end}} The '''Woolly Rhinoceros''' (''Coelodonta antiquitatis'') is an extinct species of rhinoceros that survived the last ice age.
A close relative, the Sumatran Rhinoceros (''Dicerorhinus sumatrensis''), still survives in South-East Asia, but is highly Endangered species endangered.
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Woolly rhinoceros.
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 Fossils: Buy Fossils, Dinosaur Bones, Plant Fossils, and other material at Treasures of the Earth.
The Woolly Rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is an extinct species of Rhinoceros that lived throughout Europe and Northwestern Asia during the last Ice Age (+10,000 years ago).
They grew to be as large a 11 foot long and bared a pair of horns on their head, the largest being about three (3) foot long.
Early humans hunted the Woolly Rhinoceros and drew pictures of the animals on cave walls as far as 30,000 years ago.
www.universaltreasures.com /fossilsW.htm   (377 words)

  
 Joseph Bato: The Sorcerer (introduction by John H. Donnelly)
The animals that roamed over this terrain were of the "wooly" variety: mammoth, wooly rhinocerous, bison, aurochs, reindeer, cave bear and cave lion.
Next came the bison, the mammoth and the wooly rhinoceros, followed by the reindeer and the wild auroch.
The animals so represented are primarily horses, bison, mammoth, wooly rhinoceros, reindeer, aurochs, ibex, and musk-ox.
www.trussel.com /prehist/bato.htm   (1800 words)

  
 Ice-age companions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Some belong to animals that are typical of cold climat fauna to be expected in the ice-ages (Wooly Rhino, Giant Irish Deer, Cave Bear, Musk Ox).
The Wooly Rhinoceros is one of the animals that shared its natural environnement, the tundra plains with the mammoths.
On the skull of the Wooly Rhino there is no trace of the horn.
home.wanadoo.nl /van_der_mark/rmmam/COMPAN.HTM   (384 words)

  
 WOOLY WOOLLY RHINO
Rare and in such excellent preservation, this thoracic vertebra from a Wooly rhinoceros (Coelodonta) would be a great representative specimen to compliment a fine collection of Ice Age mammals.
The color is a cool slate gray and superb bone detail exists throughout.
Minor erosion to the processes does not detract from the fine display features of this fantastic fossil bone.
www.paleodirect.com /lm12001.htm   (514 words)

  
 Mammoths and Trade: TED Cases
In Eurasia, the wooly mammoth, wooly rhinoceros, and the giant or Irish elk, among other species, became extinct during these fluctuations.
The first human arrivals in North America were wooly mammoth hunters, whose annual hunts were the most important events in their lives.(11) Archaeological finds indicate their fixation on the mammoth in painting and in sculpture.
Statues of goddesses (Venus statues) were made from the ivory of wooly mammoth, although the animals were not killed primarily for their ivory.
www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/mammoth.htm   (2669 words)

  
 Why Have Giant Deer Become Extinct?
The research has been carried out with the help of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grants 02-04-49431 and ‘The evolution of the mammalian fauna and flora in Western, Central and Eastern Europe during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (25-10 kyr B.R.)’.
About ten thousand years ago when the glaciation period was already over, the giant or the so- called big-horned deer, contemporary of the mammoth and the wooly rhinoceros, still inhabited the Eurasian plains.
They were real giants among ungulate animals: their horns with big blades, which resembled those of the fallow-deer or the elk, reached up to four meters in width.
www.innovationsreport.de /html/berichte/biowissenschaften_chemie/bericht-20202.html   (671 words)

  
 Islam Online- Science & Technology Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In regions where deposition continued for a long period of time, fossils from successive horizons indicate an orderly and progressive change in the morphology of different groups of animals and plants.
There have also been discoveries of the unaltered remains of extinct mammals, such as the wooly mammoths that resemble modern day elephants, in cold regions where they have apparently been for perhaps hundreds of thousands of years.
In Poland, entire carcasses of the extinct wooly rhinoceros have been found preserved in oil seeps.
www.islamonline.net /english/Science/2000/7/article3.shtml   (956 words)

  
 Paleocraft Woolly Rhinoceros with Calf
One such species was the woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis.
The woolly rhinoceros had a thick and shaggy coat of fur similar to that of the mammoth and was adapted to eating the grass thatgrew on the Eurasian steppe.
Measuring nearly 6 feet at the shoulder, a little smaller than today1s white rhinoceros, its size would have made it a formidable prey.
www.paleocraft.com /WRhino.html   (621 words)

  
 Centerarch.htm
Chitwan is a one horned Indian Rhinoceros, and if you should happen to be in Washington you might want to pay her a visit.
The Vietnamese rhino is a subspecies of the endangered Javan rhinoceros, of
This beautiful and touching picture of a White Rhinoceros and her babies is from The Rhinoceros Page.
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 AW2002 Abstract: Nikolskiy
Remains of bison and horse markedly dominate in the collection.
The bones of wooly mammoth, caribou, and arctic hare are numerous.
This new northernmost fauna was compared with the material from the Oyogos Yar (north of Yana-Indigirka lowland) we collected in 1996-2000, and more southern faunas of central and southern Yakutia.
www.colorado.edu /INSTAAR/ArcticWS/get_abstr.html?id%3D43   (413 words)

  
 Cretinism or Evilution?: Ninety Foot Tall Plum Tree
It was along the south coast [of that island] that Toll found his extraordinary layers of what he called "fossil ice." They were as much as 70 ft. thick.
On the top of them lay the post-Tertiary deposits in which were remains of wooly rhinoceros and mammoth, American stag, reindeer, a horse (apparently the Mongolian wild horse, which still exists), saiga, antelope, ovibos, and sabre-toothed tiger.
We have, for example, little doubt that the musk ox was an Arctic animal, like its recent representatives, and that it used to live and die out along with the mammoth and rhinoceros.
www.talkorigins.org /faqs/ce/3/part3.html   (2183 words)

  
 PC VIDEO GAME REVIEWS... Carnivores Ice Age __________|
You might not notice the difference in the animals until you get to your trophy room where your kills are displayed next to each other.
You certainly won't notice the difference when the wooly rhinoceros is impaling you.
The big guys like the Brontoreity and the wooly Rhino are easy to see, being dark colored against the snow-covered landscape, but the wooly rhino is harder to kill.
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 Rhinoceros Cage on About Animals!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Iggu Iguanas - iguana rhinoceros rhinoceros and iguana rhinoceros of a very iguana rhinoceros iguana rhinoceros iguana rhinoceros iguana rhinoceros iguana rhinoceros Cage or.
TIGER AND RHINOCEROS Just as a new oo tiger began to creep stealthily out of its travelling box and enter the cage in which it was to pass.
Case Histories Protect Steel Bars in Black Rhinoceros Cage from Deterioration Caused by Tropical Exposure amp Corrosive Animal Wastes.
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 ASA 142nd Meeting Lay Language Papers - Song-like Vocalizations and Infrasound from the Sumatran Rhinoceros
The Sumatran rhino is the oldest living species of rhino, and is a descendant of the wooly rhinoceros.
It is thought that they have remained unchanged for the last 2 million years.
Because of the critically endangered status of the Sumatran, it may be that protected environments will the only places that can keep this remarkable animal from becoming extinct.
www.acoustics.org /press/142nd/vonmuggenthaler.html   (583 words)

  
 Prehistoric Fiction : Bibliography
Following the trek of the wooly mammoth, the great hunter Torka leads a brave band of survivors across the Arctic tundra.
Having reached the age when he can hunt alone, Eyr is sent to scout the large beasts that roam the tundra, especially the wooly mammoths.
With his friend, Oak, he digs a pit and catches a baby rhinoceros, participates in a mammoth hunt with the tribe to prove himself a man, and courts the young women from a neighboring tribe...
www.trussel.com /prehist/prehise6.htm   (10243 words)

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