Giant monkeys, short-necked giraffes and pangolins and other exotic animals roamed central Romania two million years ago.

Giant monkeys. Short-necked giraffes. Saber-toothed cats. It almost sounds like a menagerie of fictional creatures. But these are just some of the animal species that roamed across an area of modern-day Romania two million years ago, scientists have found. Fossils were first unearthed along the Oltet Valley in the 1960s during the communist regime after … Continuă lectura Giant monkeys, short-necked giraffes and pangolins and other exotic animals roamed central Romania two million years ago.