The horns of the woolly rhino were often found in Russia during the 19th century, but because they are so strange-looking, many people believed that they were the claws of giant birds. Wear marks on their flat, plank-like horns suggest that the rhinos used them to clear snow from the ground.

PRONUNCIATION: WOOL-EE-RY-NO
LIVED: 500,000 — 10,000 years ago
SIZE: 6.5 feet tall at the shoulder
FACT: Herbivorous, grazing grass
MEANING: Named after its long hair
CLOSEST LIVING RELATIVE: Sumatran rhino
RANGE: Europe