Texel fossil woolly rhinoceros discovery

This video is called Neanderthal vs woolly rhino – BBC.

Translated from the site of Ecomare museum in Texel, the Netherlands, about the photo there:

This looks like a bone of a woolly rhinoceros. Salko the Wolf found the lumbar vertebra on the Hors this Sunday. It is from the last Ice Age, when mammoths, steppe bison and giant deer were wandering around here. Presumably it is some 25,000 to 40,000 years old. Then the North Sea was not a sea, but land. With a sand replenishment it probably came from the North Sea floor to the Texel coast.

Special finds

One does not find such a wonderful object every day! Still, it is worth the trouble to look for bones and other stuff on the beach. Earlier this year already, a bone of a steppe bison, a mammoth bone, a jaw of a giant deer, the humerus of a gray seal and a bone of a wolf have been found. Salko has decided to donate his find to Ecomare.

Latest blog update on our rhinos – Borneo Rhino Alliance: here.

A new oldest woolly rhino fossil in Tibet suggests some giant mammals evolved there before the beginning of the Ice Age, but it leaves a lot of questions about where these giants came from and how they acquired their adaptations for life in a cold environment: here.

Theft of replica rhino horns at Natural History Museum, Tring: here.

Steppe bison jaw on Texel: here.

Lion fossil on Texel: here.

Ice age horse bone on Texel: here.

Encouraging signs from Northern white rhinos – But Ol Pejeta rhino sanctuary needs your help: here.

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