Mana Rugbumrung Examining Fossil Anthracothere Skull (IMAGE)

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Mana Rugbumrung Examining Fossil Anthracothere Skull

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Mana Rugbumrung, a researcher at the Department of Mineral Resources in Bangkok, examines the freshly excavated skull of an anthracothere, a hippopotamus-like mammal that lived 40 million years ago in what is now Myanmar. Analyses of the teeth of these ancient mammals and others from the area revealed that the animals lived in a monsoon climate that had dry winters and very rainy summers.

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Alexis Licht 2012

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