Identified the home of the panda

French and Chinese scientists have identified the hometown of pandas based on recent archaeological discoveries. According to recent archaeological findings, the Longgupo area is located in Yushan Mountain in Sichuan Province

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French and Chinese scientists have identified the hometown of pandas based on recent archaeological discoveries.

According to recent archaeological findings, the Longgupo area of ​​Yushan Mountain in China's Sichuan province is home to pandas. Huang Wanbo, a respected Chinese archaeologist and scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said archaeologists from France and China have been studying animal fossils at Longgupo. .

More than 10 types of animal fossils, including fossils of antelopes, pandas . have been unearthed at a 400 square meter cave at 1,200 meters above sea level. The fossils of pandas date to about 80,000 - 100,000 years ago. Previously, in 1984, fossils of the species Ailuropoda micrta, a 'small panda' form were also discovered at Longgupo. Ailuropoda micrta lived about 1.8 to 2.48 million years ago and is believed to be the ancestor of today's pandas.

T.VY ( According to Xinhua )

Update 16 December 2018
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