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- The hippos from the early Pleistocene were the largest ever known while smaller specimens emerged during the middle Pleistocene. Larger specimens briefly reappeared during the late Pleistocene. "We believe the size difference was connected to the changing environmental conditions throughout the Pleistocene," said Mazza.
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Dec 2, 2023 · Modern hippos first dispersed in Europe during the Middle Pleistocene, a geological epoch that spanned from about 770,000 to 126,000 years ago. This is according to a study published November 22, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Beniamino Mecozzi of the Sapienza University of Rome and colleagues.
Oct 25, 2012 · Hippos were a constant feature of European wildlife for 1.4 million years, during the climatically turbulent time of the Pleistocene era, which witnessed 17 glacial events.
Nov 22, 2023 · Modern hippos first dispersed in Europe during the Middle Pleistocene, according to a study published November 22, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Beniamino Mecozzi of the Sapienza...
Oct 2, 2021 · Palaeobiologists have unearthed the earliest evidence yet of hippos in the UK. Excavations at Westbury Cave in Somerset, led by University of Leicester PhD student Neil Adams, uncovered a million-year-old hippo tooth which shows the animal roamed Britain much earlier than previously thought.
Oct 26, 2012 · Now palaeontologists writing in Boreas, believe that the changing climate during the Pleistocene Era may have forced Europe’s hippos to shrink to pygmy sizes before driving them to warmer climes.
Jun 1, 2021 · The dispersal of the genus Hippopotamus from Africa to Europe in the Early Pleistocene has been widely discussed in the last decades. Most authors propose a single entry of forms similar to the...
Oct 4, 2021 · In interpreting the significance of the find, we review the Pleistocene record of hippos in Britain and produce a new synthesis of dated hippo occurrences in the late Early Pleistocene of western Europe.
