June 24 , 2020
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- A team of researchers found a fossil of an extinct ancestor of Elephant.
- It is estimated to be around between 5 to 8 million old.
- The fossil was discovered in the state of Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur District’s Badshahi Bagh area.
- It was found at the Dhok Pathan Formation of the Sivalik range.
- It is said to be of a Stegodon (now extinct, a type of Elephant found until the late Pleistocene).
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