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23-OOO-YEAR-OLD RHINO
Nonprofessionals may easily mistake it for a
recent safari trophy. Actually, the woolly rhinoceroses (Coelodonta Antiquitatis) swarmed
Europe during the Ice Age circa 21,000 BC. In
1929 the carcass of a young female was unearthed
in southern Poland. We probably owe its truly
remarkable state of preservation to common salt
and mineral oil the swamp which sucked down the
poor creature was saturated with. The sensational
find has been stuffed and exhibited alongside the
skeleton and some well-preserved organs (e.g. the
tongue and the windpipe) of the same animal.
The
original 23,000-year-old hairy rhino may
well be the envy of every museum of natural
history in the world. No wonder it is the pride
of the tiny Krakow’s Muzeum Przyrodnicze at 9 Sw.
Sebastiana street.
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8-foot
golden crown
Signal
trump
Nativity
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Idol
of Slavs
Gothic
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