A French farmer kept quiet for years after stumbling across the Skull of an extinct ancestor of the elephant near the Pyrenees mountains, the Natural History Museum of Toulouse has told AFP. Paleontologist Pascal Tassy observes the skull of a Pyrenean Mastodon during excavation [Credit: © Musee d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse/AFP] The farmer discovered the first-ever skull of a Pyrenean mastodon in 2014 while doing work on his...

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