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Scientists' discovery: Pandas once lived in this Balkan country

2022-08-03 21:21:26Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Scientists' discovery: Pandas once lived in this Balkan country
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Scientists discovered that the remains of teeth found in the eastern region of Europe belong to a close relative of today's pandas, which lived here about 6 million years ago.

And this region is precisely today's Bulgaria.

Based on the size and shape of the teeth found in the 1970s, scientists estimated that the species was about the same or slightly smaller than today's pandas, and that the ancient panda probably lived in a swampy forest, Science Alert magazine reports.

Scientists' discovery: Pandas once lived in this Balkan country
An artistic reconstruction of the ancient panda

Unlike the jaws of modern pandas, the fossilized teeth that have been found do not appear to have been strong enough to tear through bamboo stems.

Scientists believe that this may prove that they were suited to rougher food, which fits the assumption that modern pandas evolved from carnivorous bears.

"Possible competition with other species, especially carnivores, explains why giant pandas began to feed mainly on plant foods in humid forest conditions," said paleontologist Nikolay Spasov of the National Museum of Natural History of Bulgaria.

Previous studies have shown that the most likely relative of modern giant pandas lived in China eight million years ago, however, fossilized teeth of panda-like creatures were also discovered in Bulgaria and are two million years younger.

Named Agriarctos nikolovi after the Bulgarian paleontologist Ivan Nikolov who first cataloged the teeth in the 1970s, this newly described species may be one of the last pandas in Europe.


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