Extraordinary archaeological discovery: fossil remains of the first European wolf found in Rome
It almost seems like the confirmation of the legend prowdly handed down by Romans since ancient times: that of the she-wolf who founded Rome. This time, however, it is not a matter of myths and legends, but rather a sensational archaeological discovery. In the Italian capital it has in fact been found the fossil of the first European wolf. The discovery, which took place in Ponte Galeria (near the area of Via Portuense) at the hands of a team of paleontologists and geologists from the Department of Earth Sciences of the University La Sapienza and the Department of Earth Sciences "Ardito Desio" in Milan, uncovered the remains of a large fossil canid skull dating back to 400,000 years ago. It was thanks to the 3D reconstruction that it was possible to identify the fossil as "the oldest a...
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