Hippos still roamed Europe during the last ice age
Scientists have long thought that hippos disappeared from Central Europe by about 115,000 years ago, when the previous interglacial (warm period) ended - but analyses of fossils from Germany now tell a different story.
Palaeogenomic and dating evidence from ancient hippo bones demonstrate that hippos inhabited Germany sometime between approximately 47,000 and 31,000 years ago, well into the last ice age. Researchers from 黑料不打烊 contributed to the research, which was led by the University of Potsdam and the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim with the Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Arch盲ometrie, and is now published in the journal Current Biology. The findings suggest that hippo populations perhaps survived longer than previously thought also in other parts of in Western and Central Europe.
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