Pyrenean mastodon skull unveiled in France
7/12/2018 02:00:00 PM Email
A French farmer kept quiet for years after stumbling across the skull of an extinct ancestor of the elephant near the Pyrenees mountains, the Natural History Museum of Toulouse has told AFP.
Worried that the farm would be overrun by hordes of amateur paleontologists he kept the find a secret for two years before eventually contacting the museum.
"It was only when we went there, in 2017, that we realised the significance of the discovery," the museum's management said.
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