About 12,000 years ago or so, at the end of the last ice age, many giant species including woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos (image), and saber-toothed cats disappeared.
Shining their torches into the darkness, the cavers suddenly realised that the surrounding walls were covered in images of woolly rhinoceroses, horses, lions, bears, hyena, owls and at least a dozen red ochre images of human hands.
Sometimes known as the 'cave of 100 mammoths', the Grotte de Rouffignac is explored via an electric train which clatters through six miles of caverns, covered with images of woolly mammoths, ibex, reindeer, lions and horses.
He contends that contrary to his image as a woolly-headed idealist, Einstein was a savvy and politically astute champion of the underdog who made hardheaded choices about what organizations he would support.
His image as a woolly consensus-seeker has been fixed in the public mind by "Les guignols de l'info", a satirical television show, which portrays him as a gormless ditherer.
One image even shows a woolly rhino, one of the only examples in prehistoric art.
It's also a little alarming that he thinks the way to ensorcell women is to swaddle himself in woolly geometric shapes that conjure up images of Bing Crosby on the links or Fred MacMurray at the kitchen table.
Figure 2 Woolly Mammoth Facts.
Is that spooky or what?" The photo is of Postlethwaite in dungarees and woolly hat, painting pylons, with a duplicate image alongside.
A cartoon image of a pile of woolly quadrupeds made for an imaginary, encyclopedia-size tome about how to not be racist is captioned, "When counting sheep at night, please be sure they aren't all white".
