Woolly Mammoth - Woolly Rhino - Ice Age Animals

Ice age animals. Woolly Mammoth and Woolly Rhino-Coelodonta from Pleistocene Epoch.
17" x 14" size museum quality frame, double matted in glass - photographic reproduction of original oil painting Ice Age Mammals by Czech artist Josef Moravec.


WOOLLY MAMMOTH mammuthus primigenius
This well known Woolly Mammoth was a cold climate dweller equipped with a thick layer of fat for insulation, and an exterior of long black hair. The Woolly Mammoth was smaller than most mammoths, and had a hump of fat behind its domed head. It fed on low tundra vegetation in which it scraped away snow and ice from with its ivory tusks. Several well preserved remains have been found in Siberia and Alaska and cave paintings in Spain and France show depictions of the Woolly Mammoth as seen by early humans. The mammuthus primigenius went extinct only about 10,000 years ago.


TIME - Late Pleistocene
RANGE - Europe / North America / Asia
DIET - Tundra vegetation
SIZE - 9ft. (2.7m) high


COELODONTA antiquitatis - Woolly Rhino
This creature was a huge beast that lived in during the last ice age. The Coelodonta had a massive body and a thick, shaggy coat that protected it against the harsh climate of the tundra and steppe that bordered the great glaciers of the Northern Hemisphere. Coelodonta had a pair of huge horns on its snout that reached lengths of up to 3ft in the largest of males. These creatures were hunted by early humans and they were depicted on the walls of caves in France 30,000 years ago.


TIME - 200 - 25 TYA, Pleistocene epoch.
SIZE - Up to 12ft (3.7m) long and 5.5ft (1.7m) at the shoulder.
WEIGHT - Up to 1.2 US tons.