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Tibetan Plateau a Cold Cradle for Ice-Age Giants (3 of 7)

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Tibetan Plateau a Cold Cradle for Ice-Age Giants (3 of 7)

image: Digital composite photo of the skull and lower jaw of Coelodonta thibetana, holotype. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Sept. 2, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. T. Deng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, "Out of Tibet: Pliocene Woolly Rhino Suggests High-Plateau Origin of Ice Age Megaherbivores.” view more 

Credit: Image courtesy of Xiaoming Wang


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