The most primitive woolly rhinoceros in the world from the Pliocene Epoch in Tibet (about 3.7 million years ago) provides important evidence to solve the mystery of the evolution of this type of animal. This batch of precious fossils was collected by an expedition team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the high-altitude Zanda Basin in the Ali region in the western Himalayas of Tibet. They were studied by researcher Deng Tao and others and named a new species of woolly rhinoceros. ——The discovery of the Tibetan woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta thibetana Deng et al., 2011) proves that some members of the Ice Age fauna had evolved and developed on the Tibetan Plateau before the Quaternary.
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