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9000-year-old rhino bones excavated in Russia
Moscow, July 29 : Archaeologists in the Sverdlovsk Region in Russia's Urals have discovered the 9000-year-old bones of a rhinoceros, a local museum worker has said.
The finding is likely to belie the assumption that rhinoceros last wandered the Urals some 15,000-20,000 years ago. It seems to prove that they existed in the area a lot more recently.
The excavations during which the bones were discovered were carried out at a site on the bank of the Lobva River, said Nikolai Yerokhin from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plant And Animal Ecology department, reported the RIA Novosti.
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Story first published: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 16:14 [IST]