The skulls
and bones of woolly rhinoceros are one of the most frequent paleontological
discoveries in Northern Eurasia, especially in Siberia. For a long time they
were ascribed to various mythical animals. The scientific description of this
most northern rhinoceros appeared only by the end of the 18th century. Johann
Friedrich Blumenbach called it an ancient rhinoceros. This giant herbivorous animal
lived near mammoths in the mammoth steppe 300-10 thousand years ago.
Prehistoric people knew this animal and were quite good at rhinoceros hunting.