8 million-year-old elephant-like remains found in FYROM
4/24/2018 02:30:00 PM
Paleontologists from Bulgaria and the Former Yugoslavian Province of Macedonia (FYROM) 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.
A member of a paleontologist team applies a liquid to protect a fossilized skeleton of extinct species of elephant,
excavated at Dolni Disan, near Negotino, in central FYROM
Scientists at the Natural Science Museum of Skopje and the Natural History Museum of Sofia said Tuesday they began excavating the skeleton in Dolni Disan in central FYROM 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.
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