A team of researchers has shown that hippos lived on the Rhine at the same time as mammoths. Studies of bone finds provide evidence of this.
Mannheim – So far, science has assumed that the hippopotamus on the Rhine became extinct at the end of the last warm period 116,000 years ago. An interdisciplinary research team has now corrected this finding. Apparently the hippos lived at the same time as mammoths in the Upper Rhine region.
How the researchers found out that the hippos lived in the Rhine 30,000 years before our time, reveals BW24 *.
The hippopotamus is a real Ice Age inhabitant on the Rhine. This shows that the animals were able to adapt well to the corresponding temperatures and environmental conditions in the cold-time Upper Rhine Rift, "explained Wilfried Rosendahl, General Director of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums, to the German Press Agency (dpa) . * BW24 is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
