🥶 Rhino Just Dropped in the Arctic - And It's Ancient AF 🧊

Spilling the Iced Tea

Okay, so listen up, history class is in session but make it 🔥. Researchers were exploring the Canadian Arctic – yeah, that super-cold place – and they stumbled upon something major. They found the fossil of a rhino, but not just any rhino, a whole new species called Epiatheracerium itjilik. "Itjilik" apparently means "frosty" in the local language, which is kinda iconic, TBH.

This rhino lived like 23 million years ago. The fossil is like, crazy well-preserved, almost like it was waiting for its glow-up moment.

This rhino was a bit of a short king, like the size of a modern Indian rhino, and here's the tea: it didn't even have a horn! Talk about defying expectations. The area was once a forest, which is wild!

But here's where it gets really sus: This frosty rhino might change how we think about how rhinos traveled between North America and Europe back in the day. Apparently, there was this thing called the North Atlantic Land Bridge (basically a landmass that's now underwater) and this rhino might have used it way later than we thought.

Scientists even extracted some proteins from the rhino's teeth, which is next-level. All this to say, history just got a major plot twist. Stay woke, fam.