image: As global climate cooled and cold habitats expanded, the ancestral woolly rhino descended to northern latitudes, and eventually became one of the most successful Ice Age megaherbivores. Green area is the ultimate distribution of the most advanced woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitati, that lived in the mammoth steppes during the terminal Ice Age. Numbers in circles refer to locations of successively more advanced and geologically younger woolly rhinos. For more information, please see figure 1 in the manuscript. 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
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