Palaeontologists have pieced together the fossilized skull of the oldest example yet found of a woolly rhinoceros in Europe. The 460,000-year-old skull, which was found in Germany, had to be reconstructed from 53 fragments.

The extinct mammals reached a length of three-and-a-half meters in adulthood and, unlike their modern relatives, were covered in shaggy hair.
Details of the work appear in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews.
The team says the find from Germany fills a gap in our understanding of how these animals evolved.
""This is the oldest woolly rhinoceros found in Europe,"" said Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke, from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Weimar, Germany.
He added: ""It gives us a precise date for the first appearance of cold-climate animals spreading throughout Asia and Europe during the ice ages.""
The skull was discovered around 1900, in a gravel pit at the foot of the Kyffhauser mountain range near the city of Bad Frankenhausen.
The 53 fragments were only recently put together by Dr. Kahlke and his colleague Frederic Lacombat, from the Crozatier Museum in Puy-en-Velay, France. After examining the reconstructed cranium, they assigned the specimen to Coelodonta tologoijensis , an Asian woolly rhino species that had not previously been described in Europe.
Woolly rhino ( Coelodonta ) first appeared about 2.5 million years ago in the northern foothills of the Himalayas.
And for much of their evolutionary existence, these mammals were confined to steppe environments in continental Asia.
The key was their diet, which started off being rather mixed - including the leaves of shrubs and trees.
(Source: BBC)