Arctic frost rhino fossil rewrites rhino history
A near-complete 23-million-year-old rhinoceros skeleton, Epiaceratherium itjilik, was found in Canada’s High Arctic (Devon Island’s Haughton Crater), nicknamed the “frosty rhino.” The discovery shows rhinos once roamed far north, hints at a migration route via a Greenland land bridge, and sheds light on Arctic environments and rhino evolution; researchers even recovered partial enamel proteins, and the fossil will reside at the Canadian Museum of Nature.
