Un equipo de paleontolog\u00eda de Pakist\u00e1n descubri\u00f3 un colmillo de stegodon, antecedente lejano del elefante, de 2.4 metros de largo, 20 cent\u00edmetros de di\u00e1metro y con una antig\u00fcedad de 1.1 millones de a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n
\u00abEs el mayor colmillo de este tipo encontrado en el pa\u00eds\u00bb, dijo a Efe el jefe del equipo de investigaci\u00f3n de la Universidad del Punyab que llev\u00f3 a cabo el descubrimiento, Mohammed Akhtar.<\/p>\n
El investigador afirm\u00f3 que el hallazgo del colmillo, desenterrado hace tres d\u00edas en el distrito de Jhelum, en la provincia oriental del Punyab, ayudar\u00e1 a estudiar la evoluci\u00f3n de los elefantes.<\/p>\n
El f\u00f3sil pertenece al periodo del Pleistoceno, seg\u00fan las pruebas realizadas con uranio radiactivo para determinar su antig\u00fcedad.<\/p>\n
Akhtar indic\u00f3 que se trata del mayor descubrimiento que han realizado desde que en 1992 comenzaron a investigar los f\u00f3siles en Jhelum, donde han hallado unas 4.000 piezas.<\/p>\n
El stegodon es una especia de mastodonte extinguido, originario de Asia y pariente lejano del elefante actual, que vivi\u00f3 hace 11 millones de a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n
Fuente: Locomundo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Un equipo de paleontolog\u00eda de Pakist\u00e1n descubri\u00f3 un colmillo de stegodon, antecedente lejano del elefante, de 2.4 metros de largo, 20 cent\u00edmetros de di\u00e1metro y con una antig\u00fcedad de 1.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deportes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/formalprision.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/colmillo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6id8p-anr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/formalprision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/formalprision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/formalprision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formalprision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formalprision.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/formalprision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formalprision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/formalprision.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formalprision.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formalprision.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}