The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is an extinct species of rhinoceros that was common throughout Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene epoch and survived until the end of the last glacial period. The genus name Coelodonta means "cavity tooth". The woolly rhinoceros was a member of the Pleistocene megafauna.
As the Ice Age ended, humans' traditional game of woolly mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses began to follow the glaciers northward, leaving the people with only the options of hunting caribou and horses.
