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Pandas Might Have Originated In Europe, Not China
« on: October 31, 2017, 03:13:20 pm »

Pandas Might Have Originated In Europe, Not China
 
By Rachel Baxter
30 Oct 2017, 13:07

You might assume that pandas have only ever lived in China, but new evidence suggests that the bears’ ancestors once lived in Europe, around 10 million years ago.

University of Toronto paleoanthropologist David Begun was hunting for hominid bones when he stumbled upon some mysterious teeth, which he believed might have belonged to a panda. He was right. 

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pandas-might-have-originated-in-europe-not-china/