An ancient, and adorably named, new rhino species has been discovered in the Canadian Arctic . The exceptionally well-preserved and almost complete fossil represents the northernmost rhino species found to date, and belonged to a beast that roamed this region around 23 million years ago. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The new species, unearthed in Haughton Crater on Devon Island, Nunavut, has been named Epiatheracerium itjilik . Its species name “itjilik” means “frosty” or “frost” in Inuktitut, referencing the icy conditions in which it was found. However, the area would have been a temperate forest habitat while the extinct rhino was alive in the Early Miocene, some 23 million to 16 million years ago.

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