Updated 30 October 2002, 17.46

			Fact File
	Unearthing history
		One rhino skull was over a metre long
		There were also bones from a mammoth, reindeer, wild horse, bison and a wolf.

The bones had been there since the Ice Age - about 30-50,000 years ago.

They were dug up in a quarry by the River Trent.

Quarryman Ray Davies pulled up a massive skull in the bucket of his digger.

One of the skulls even has bits of ancient plant still stuck to its teeth, which might tell us what its last meal was!

It's so well preserved probably because it froze as soon as it died.

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Scientists also dug out lots of really well preserved plants and beetles.

All of which could give scientists a good picture of what life was like in that part of the UK back then.

It's one of the most complete woolly rhino finds ever.

But although the front end has been found, the, er, back end is still missing...

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