A great-great grandfather of the hippopotamus likely swam from Asia to Africa some 35 million years ago, long before the arrival of the lion, rhino, zebra and giraffe Pictured is a view of one of the fossils that confirmed this. It shows an upper molar of a species known as Epirigenys lokonensis
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015. A great-great grandfather of the hippopotamus likely swam from Asia to Africa some 35 million years ago, long before the arrival of the lion, rhino, zebra and giraffe, researchers said Tuesday.
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