Press Releases Archive
12.03.2014
Island-hopping rhinos and the fish that got away
Tübingen and Senckenberg paleobiologists discover fossils revealing complex genesis of species known today
A team of scientists working at the Na Duong open-cast brown coal mine in Vietnam have found the fossils of two previously unknown mammal species which lived about 37 million years ago - a rhinocerous and a relative of the hippo. The newly described mammals appear to correlate with prehistoric species known from fossil sites in Europe.
The scientists also made further discoveries, including the tiny 5cm-long ancestor of the bighead carp - today one of the largest members of the carp family, reaching a length of up to 1.5 meters and a weight of 50 kilograms - as well as three fossilized crocodiles and several new turtles.
Read the full text on these exciting discoveries in the attachments below.
Contact
Prof. Dr. Madeleine Böhme
Department of Geosciences
Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoecology
(currently away on expedition)
<link>madelaine.boehme[at]senckenberg.de