Modern giant pandas are a celebrated national symbol in China, and the idea their ancestors came from Europe is not welcome there.
A newly discovered species of giant panda named Agriarctos nikolovi that lived around 6 million years ago. Velizar Simeonovski
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Aug. 1, 2022, 7:25 AM PDT
ByTom Metcalfe
The discovery of an extinct panda that roamed the forests and swamps of Europe millions of years ago could reignite debate about whether the ancestors of China’s iconic national animal actually came from Europe.
The only evidence of the newly-identified panda species — dubbed Agriarctos nikolovi — are two fossilized teeth found in a lump of coal in Bulgaria almost 50 years ago, according toa study published Sundayin the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. But scientists say they show pandas were living in Europe about 6 million years…
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