Coelodonta antiquitatis

The woolly rhinoceros is an extinct species of rhinoceros that is believed to have lived throughout Asia and northern Europe some 1.8 million years ago during the Pleistocene epoch. The binomial name of the woolly rhinoceros is Coelodonta antiquitatis. Well-preserved specimens of the woolly rhinoceros have been discovered in frozen ground at a temperature of minus 40 degrees in Europe and Siberia. They were typically around 4 meters in length with a shoulder height of 2.2 meters, and weighed about 3 tons. It had two horns on its skull, including a larger anterior one at the end of its snout and a smaller one between the eyes, and its body was covered with a thick layer of fur. Its prominent physical characteristics include a stocky body, long and thick fur, small ears, and short, thick legs. The woolly rhinoceros was the largest land animal of the Ice Age after the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). It is conjectured that the woolly rhinoceros also lived on the plains of the region where the temperature was relatively milder, rather than in glacial regions. Woolly rhinoceros also appear in stone-age cave paintings and engravings. In Korea, their fossils have been found in Taebaek, Gangwon Province.