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Older estimates place the age of divergence around 47 million years ago, during the Eocene, [2] while younger estimates place the split around 35 million years ago, during the Oligocene. [9] Unambiguous members of Elasmotheriinae first appeared during the Early Miocene , and were widespread across Europe, Africa and Asia during the Miocene epoch.
Other names used by minority groups in the saola's range are lagiang , a ngao and xoong xor [9] In the press, saolas have been referred to as "Asian unicorns", [10] an appellation apparently due to its rarity and reported gentle nature, and perhaps because both the saola and the oryx have been linked with the unicorn.
A kirin in Beijing – a mythological creature which has often been referred to as the "Chinese unicorn" The report attracted widespread international coverage for the apparently bizarre nature of the claim to have found a "unicorn lair", but subsequent reports suggested that the Korean terminology had been mistranslated.
Adding to this conundrum are fossilized footprints of bird-like tracks that are 210 million years old—a good 60 million years before the arrival of the genus Archaeopteryx, one of the oldest ...
This type of salmon is rarely found in Lake Erie, especially larger ones. Alex reeled in a 10.4-pound fish that measured 30 inches long. He grew up in a fishing family and has caught Atlantics ...
Their less than two-inch stature makes them easy to miss. But locals are finding the figurines seemingly everywhere.
Of the living species, the Indian rhinoceros (R. unicornis) lived in China only during the early Pleistocene, 2 milion years ago, while the Javan rhinoceros (R. sondaicus) and Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) were found during the Holocene (ca. 10,000 BCE - present). The genus Rhinoceros has never been found north of the Yellow ...
Over the course of about three weeks, AT&T removed more than 75 tons of defunct, lead-sheathed telecommunication cable from Lake Tahoe.