• Head & Research scientist, Palaeobiology, Canadian Museum of Nature & Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Biology, Carleton University
Fossile d’Epiatheracerium itjilik vu du dessus. Environ 75 % des ossements de l’animal ont été retrouvés, y compris des éléments diagnostiques tels que des dents, des mandibules et des fragments crâniens. (Pierre Poirier/Canadian Museum of Nature)

Voici Epiaceratherium itjilik, le rhinocéros qui a vécu dans l’Arctique

Les restes d’un ancien rhinocéros arctique indiquent que les mammifères terrestres ont traversé l’Atlantique Nord via des ponts terrestres, et ce, plus récemment qu’on ne le pensait.
Overhead view of the fossil of Epiatheracerium itjilik. About 75 per cent of the animal’s bones were recovered, including diagnostic parts such as the teeth, mandibles and pieces of the cranium. (Pierre Poirier/Canadian Museum of Nature)

Epiaceratherium itjilik: The rhino that lived in the Arctic

Remains of an ancient Arctic rhino indicate that land mammals traversed the North Atlantic via land bridges, and did so much more recently than previously thought.

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