Baby Woolley Rhinoceros Found in Siberia:
February 26, 2015 6:56 PM Subscribe
The Only Woolley Rhinoceros Calf Ever Found: Woolley Mammoths of all ages have been found. Adult Woolley Rhinoceros finds are so rare they can be counted on one hand. This is the first baby
Awesome!
Incidentally, I am an unabashed fan of the Siberian Times. Their Weird & Wonderful category is actually weird and actually wonderful.
posted by Sticherbeast at 7:22 PM on February 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
Incidentally, I am an unabashed fan of the Siberian Times. Their Weird & Wonderful category is actually weird and actually wonderful.
posted by Sticherbeast at 7:22 PM on February 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
That was a lot less cute than I was expecting.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:29 PM on February 26, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:29 PM on February 26, 2015 [8 favorites]
That's less cute than you would hope.
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:35 PM on February 26, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:35 PM on February 26, 2015 [5 favorites]
Dammit, that's what I get for not viewing new comments.
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:35 PM on February 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:35 PM on February 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
Possible intact DNA??
Clone that puppy already!!
posted by BlueHorse at 7:43 PM on February 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
It looks like a deflated dog.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 7:53 PM on February 26, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 7:53 PM on February 26, 2015 [4 favorites]
No rhino, not even an infant, desires to be called "cute" by hairless apes who inherited the Holocene.
posted by Nevin at 8:00 PM on February 26, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by Nevin at 8:00 PM on February 26, 2015 [8 favorites]
TIL there's a Siberian Times! Did anyone else read the article about underwater, upside down ice hockey?
posted by OHenryPacey at 8:00 PM on February 26, 2015
posted by OHenryPacey at 8:00 PM on February 26, 2015
It died waiting around for its Neandrethal master to emerge from the iceberg.
posted by codacorolla at 8:27 PM on February 26, 2015
posted by codacorolla at 8:27 PM on February 26, 2015
Looks like an Eeyore more than a Sasha. This thing is in the dead center of the Venn diagram between things that are cute and things that are sad.
posted by Renoroc at 8:41 PM on February 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Renoroc at 8:41 PM on February 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
What, no watercolor artist's rendition of some woolly rhinos standing near a pond?
posted by Uppity Pigeon #2 at 9:47 PM on February 26, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by Uppity Pigeon #2 at 9:47 PM on February 26, 2015 [4 favorites]
here's baby rhino gifs, for those who want reminding that live baby rhinos are really cute
posted by idiopath at 9:49 PM on February 26, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by idiopath at 9:49 PM on February 26, 2015 [3 favorites]
I'm just never going to be ok with old, matted hair.... never will...
posted by pbeyer at 9:57 PM on February 26, 2015
posted by pbeyer at 9:57 PM on February 26, 2015
live baby rhinos are really cute
Dry live baby rhinos are really cute. Otherwise, it's a bit of a slimy armadillo-bald cow-Eraserhead baby sort of a mess.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:02 PM on February 26, 2015 [4 favorites]
Dry live baby rhinos are really cute. Otherwise, it's a bit of a slimy armadillo-bald cow-Eraserhead baby sort of a mess.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:02 PM on February 26, 2015 [4 favorites]
MetaFilter: a bit of a slimy armadillo-bald cow-Eraserhead baby sort of a mess
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 10:18 PM on February 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 10:18 PM on February 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
Those who have seen Cave of Forgotten Dreams (psst, it's on Netflix) may recall that there is a cave painting of a wooly rhinoceros among the many animal depictions dating back as far as 35,000 years. This Russian hunter is not the first man to have seen a wooly rhino carcass -- but may be the first in many, many generations.
posted by dhartung at 11:00 PM on February 26, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by dhartung at 11:00 PM on February 26, 2015 [5 favorites]
That was a lot less cute than I was expecting.
expecting adj.
Of a woman or female animal, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.
Now I have the giggles.
posted by adept256 at 11:02 PM on February 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
expecting adj.
Of a woman or female animal, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.
Now I have the giggles.
posted by adept256 at 11:02 PM on February 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
This is all very interesting but is that fur in the picture gold or black?
posted by Hairy Lobster at 12:47 AM on February 27, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by Hairy Lobster at 12:47 AM on February 27, 2015 [4 favorites]
It's interesting to consider that the Pleistocene (with its ice ages) lasted for 2.5 million years (longer than the existence of the human race), and the Holocene only started 10,000 years ago.
posted by Nevin at 3:40 AM on February 27, 2015
posted by Nevin at 3:40 AM on February 27, 2015
Less cute than you were expecting? From the post, I thought they'd found a live one.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 4:34 AM on February 27, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Kirth Gerson at 4:34 AM on February 27, 2015 [2 favorites]
The part of the carcass that stuck out of the ice was eaten by wild animals
I was going through my freezer and realized I actually have some woolly rhino meat. It's 10,000 years old, but it was frozen the whole time. Is it okay to eat?
posted by snofoam at 4:48 AM on February 27, 2015 [7 favorites]
I was going through my freezer and realized I actually have some woolly rhino meat. It's 10,000 years old, but it was frozen the whole time. Is it okay to eat?
posted by snofoam at 4:48 AM on February 27, 2015 [7 favorites]
Was it ever in the trunk of a 64 impala? Just asking...
posted by evilDoug at 6:09 AM on February 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by evilDoug at 6:09 AM on February 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
these people are really excited for just having found a dead baby
posted by Bookhouse at 6:19 AM on February 27, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Bookhouse at 6:19 AM on February 27, 2015 [3 favorites]
I really had to wonder about the eaten part. I mean, what was that like? Some carrion feeder wandering along, "Oh, hey! That smells like something I'd eat!" NOMNOMNOM. "It doesn't quite taste like anything I've had before.....huh!"
I find it neat that for those random scavengers that they saw was just an every day meal, not realizing they're dining on something that no other creature of their species has dined upon for thousands of years. Nature does what nature does.
posted by Atreides at 6:38 AM on February 27, 2015 [4 favorites]
I find it neat that for those random scavengers that they saw was just an every day meal, not realizing they're dining on something that no other creature of their species has dined upon for thousands of years. Nature does what nature does.
posted by Atreides at 6:38 AM on February 27, 2015 [4 favorites]
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