Still Waters Posted April 24, 2018 #1 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Paleontologists from Bulgaria and Macedonia are excavating the fossilized remains of a prehistoric elephant believed to pre-date the mammoth, after its bones were discovered accidentally by a man working in a field. Scientists at the Natural Science Museum of Macedonia and the Natural History Museum of Sofia said Tuesday they began excavating the skeleton in Dolni Disan in central Macedonia last Friday. They estimated the animal would have weighed about 10 tons and have been about 50 years old at the time of its death, roughly 8 million years ago during the Miocene epoch. https://phys.org/news/2018-04-macedonia-million-year-old-elephant-like.html 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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