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It was named in 1808, so it must have been discovered before then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasmotherium#Discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasmoth
by stephenboyd 11y ago
It was named in 1808, so it must have been discovered before then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasmotherium#Discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasmotherium#Discovery
The news is about the recent finding of a skull in Siberia, which they were able to use to date the species to only 29,000 years ago.
- itcrowd 11y agoSorry, my post might not have been clear enough. What I meant is that (Kosintev, 2014) already dated the species to ~30,000 years old two years ago. This new publication merely confirms that.