09-02-2011, 05:41 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14754317
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News
The discovery team says it might have used its horn as a paddle to sweep snow from vegetation
Woolly rhino's ancient migration
Mammoths survived late in Britain
A woolly rhino fossil dug up on the Tibetan Plateau is believed to be the oldest specimen of its kind yet found.
The creature lived some 3.6 million years ago - long before similar beasts roamed northern Asia and Europe in the ice ages that gripped those regions.
The discovery team says the existence of this ancient rhino supports the idea that the frosty Tibetan foothills of the Himalayas were the evolutionary cradle for these later animals.
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News
The discovery team says it might have used its horn as a paddle to sweep snow from vegetation
Woolly rhino's ancient migration
Mammoths survived late in Britain
A woolly rhino fossil dug up on the Tibetan Plateau is believed to be the oldest specimen of its kind yet found.
The creature lived some 3.6 million years ago - long before similar beasts roamed northern Asia and Europe in the ice ages that gripped those regions.
The discovery team says the existence of this ancient rhino supports the idea that the frosty Tibetan foothills of the Himalayas were the evolutionary cradle for these later animals.