This wave of ancient animal zombies is coming, the number is far beyond your imagination, are you afraid or not? Scared or not? This horrific scene appears in the Daqing Museum, and the pictures are all fossils of woolly rhinoceros.
The woolly rhinoceros, also known as the long-haired rhinoceros, is an extinct rhinoceros belonging to the genus Rhinoceros, belonging to the subfamily Diplodocus of the family Rhinoceros. The average body length is 3.5 meters, the shoulder height is about 2 meters, and the average weight is 1.8 tons, which is comparable to the size of the existing Indian rhinoceros, smaller than the white rhino. It is so named because of the thick hair all over the body. The woolly rhinoceros has two flat horns that can push the snow out to graze. It also has a thick layer of fur and fat, which is used to keep warm in cold environments.
The woolly rhinoceros lived during the Quaternary Pleistocene, the same age as the true mammoth, and survived the Ice Age. It is active in northern Eurasia and lives with its giant rhinoceros plate-toothed rhinoceros, which belongs to the same family as the true rhinoceros family. The woolly rhinoceros was once a hunting object for Paleolithic humans, and its extinction date is only 10,000 years, making it the latest prehistoric rhinoceros to become extinct. The Sumatran rhinoceros, the closest relative of the extant rhinos, is still alive in Southeast Asia, but is a critically endangered species on the brink of extinction.
Daqing Museum is the first comprehensive museum in China with the theme of the Quaternary paleoenvironment, paleontology and ancient humans in China, and is one of the museums with the most complete and numerous professional collection of mammoths and woolly rhinoceros fauna fossils in China and even in the world. The treasures of the three museums, the mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros and the Northeast bison, are designed to be placed in the hall of the museum, and the glass-covered ground is their fossils.
Exterior view of Daqing Museum. Daqing Museum has three exhibitions: "Northeast Quaternary Natural Environment", "Northeast Quaternary Mammals" and "Ancient Human Civilization in Daqing Area". With millions of years of evolutionary history and fossil cultural relics displayed, people can understand the vicissitudes of the natural and human history of Daqing area.