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Elephant's ancestor and other prehistoric mammals found

Ethiopia is going to sure be a major tourist hot spot in the coming year. The remains of animals that roamed on earth 27 million years ago have just been found.

The remains of the elephant's ancestor and 6 new species of prehistoric mammals have just been discovered. A 2600 kg rhinoceros like Using satellite imagery, the researchers zoomed into sedimentary deposits - estimated to be 30 million years old. Digging into those spots unearthed the fossils spread over 70 spots - 6600 feet above sea level.

John Kapelman, a palaeontologist at the University of Texas was the team leader for this expedition

He said the team located the fossils in about 70 sites spread over several square kilometres of farm country about 6,600 feet above sea level. The team used satellite imagery to locate sedimentary deposits covering volcanic basalt that researchers knew to be about 30 million years old.