The fossil weighs 10 kilogrammes and is one foot long. It was found by Punjab University’s research scholar Ghayyur Abbas and field guides Chaudhry Abid Hussain and Mehtab Khan. Scientists confirm 3.5 billion year-old fossil life in rockSohawa is a hotbed for fossils, with many other discoveries made there in recent years. The plant-eating, semi-aquatic mammals called anthracotheres flourished over 40 million years and died out less than 2.5 million years ago. Earlier, the skulls of a nine million-year-old anthracothere, Merycopotamus medioximus, and a contemporaneous fossil hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon sivalensis) were found in Pakistan’s Siwalik Hills, according to Berkeley.

Source: The Express Tribune January 01, 2018 14:48 UTC