Researchers discover important woolly rhino fossil (http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-important-woolly-rhino-fossil.html)
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QuoteA paper to be published on September 2, 2011 in the authoritative magazine Science reveals the discovery of a primitive woolly rhino fossil in the Himalayas, which suggests some giant mammals first evolved in present-day Tibet before the beginning of the Ice Age. The extinction of Ice Age giants such as woolly mammoths and rhinos, giant sloths, and saber-tooth cats has been widely studied, but much less is known about where these giants came from, and how they acquired their adaptations for living in a cold environment...
Interesting idea that the cold weather adaption happened before the ice ages.