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Trogontherium
Trogontherium, chiefly T. cuvieri, the Eurasian giant beaver, an extinct semi-aquatic castorid rodent from the Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene of Eurasia, only slightly larger than Castor fiber and unrelated to Castoroides.
Woolly mammoth
Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), extinct cold-adapted elephant of Arctic steppe-tundra; arose in northeast Siberia ~800 ka BP, last survived on Wrangel Island ~4,000 years ago; genome, extinction, and de-extinction research.
Woolly rhinoceros
The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) was an extinct, cold-adapted rhinoceros with dense fur and a shoulder hump that ranged from Western Europe to Siberia until about 14,000 years ago.