The longest woolly rhino horn ever found is providing new insights into the lives of these now extinct animals.
The horn — found preserved in Siberian permafrost — stretched over 1.6 meters, nearly the size of a small adult human and a full 30 centimeters longer than the previous record holder, researchers report September 12 in the Journal of Zoology.
A local hunter and fisherman found the horn and complete skull along a small tributary of Russia’s Kolyma River. He sent the remains to the Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk for examination by researchers. Frozen lemmings found near the rhino remains were sent to Novosibirsk for carbon dating and showed