So the Wool Rhinoceros Came to Germany

In 1515, the Portuguese king Manuel I gave Pope Leo X a rhino – which never arrived alive in Rome. Albrecht Dürer, however, had a description and a sketch of the animal in his hands. His "Rhinocerus" subsequently coined the image of rhino horns in Europe for a long time. Until a Dutch captain set off on a European tour with the Panzernashorn Clara from 1746. We then talk about animals as status symbols in princely menageries, elephant diplomacy …

How DNA traces in animal cod and sediments helped to reconstruct the history of the wooln rhinoceros. © Universität Konstanz Versagender Kot: Until the end of the last ice age there were rhinoceros in Europe as well. But where these wooln rhinoceros once came from and what they looked like, paleontologists have only recently clarified. In a video they explain what role the petrified feces of a hyena played and how the researchers managed to gain…