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Five elephant species lived 8M years ago in central Turkey
14:39 March 20, 2021 AA
Nearly 8 million years ago, five elephant species, known as the ancestor of elephants, lived in the now central Turkey, according to an archeology expert. Oksan Basoglu, a professor of archeology at Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University, who is heading excavations, said that a wide variety of fossils such as that of giraffes, deer and antelopes, as well as five different species of elephants, were found.