Archeologists discover 18,000-year-old skull of woolly rhinoceros in Brno

Archeologists working in Brno discovered the lower part of an 18,000-year-old skull of the now extinct woolly rhinoceros. The discovery was made during a dig in Brno's Vídeňská street. The skull still contains the roots of some of the animal’s teeth. The team believes that the rhinoceros was brought to the location by hunter-gatherers who may have resided in the area.

“We have found several old bones in this area, such as pieces of a mammoth and of other animals”, Lenka Sedláčková from the Archai Brno organisation told Czech Television on Friday. The skull fragment will be transported to the Antropos Institute for cleaning and research, after which it will be added to the collection of the Moravian Museum.