当最后披毛犀占据更新世北境的同时，一群有巨大角且体重不逊于今天白犀的真板齿犀（ Elasmotherium ）也出现在西伯利亚等地。它们的亲缘关系和现存所有犀牛和披毛犀相对远一些，但也是真犀科成员。这些“独角兽”的祖先原本角很小或者没有，也就是早期的板齿犀族成员，后来在演化过程中出现了相对大的鼻角，再之后鼻角和额角逐渐合并成一个，头部也变得粗壮，体型也渐渐增大。

Fossils from more than 600,000 years ago reveal how Southern Europe's animal community shifted between warm and cold climate ...

提问：这是狼还是狗？这其实是一只捷克狼犬这名字为什么又是狼又是犬？相信很多人听说过狗是从狼进化而来的那么，狗是如何变成了今天的样子？捷克狼犬是怎么来的？捷克狼犬是经由家犬中的德国牧羊犬和野生灰狼杂交之后的新品系。在形态特征上，它有着类似于野生灰狼的毛 ...

Fossils from more than 600,000 years ago reveal how Southern Europe’s animal community shifted between warm and cold climate ...

Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how ...

Rare extinct elephant fossils in India reveal the earliest known evidence of butchery, shedding light on ancient human survival strategies.

During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died ...

Aurochs went extinct around 400 years ago which left much of their evolutionary history a mystery — until scientists ...

Ancient elephant fossils in Kashmir, dating back 300,000 years, reveal early human activity, shedding light on prehistoric ...

In what now seems like the Pleistocene epoch but which was just four years ago ... “Growing up, no one in my family could ...