Scientists discovered in Thailand bone mastodon species unknown to science

Teeth and fragments of animal bones, which in size was slightly larger than the average Asian elephant (and less well-studied by paleontologists of the American mastodon) were found by expeditions of the past five years, according to news reports citing a statement issued on Wednesday, staff of the North-East Research Institute in the Teachers University of Nakhon Ratchasima province. According to the researchers found the fossils were compared with the bones of mastodons and mammoths, who lived in different states, and the results of this comparison, it was concluded that the bones belong to a previously unknown type mastodon. Northeast Thailand is rich in paleontological finds. In particular, today, the existence in Thailand in ancient times "Siam Tyrannosaurus rex, which in size is slightly smaller than the well-known predator of the late Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus Rex.