A new species of giant mammal has been identified after researchers investigated bones that had been kept for decades in a Kenyan museum drawer, BBC reported.
The species, dubbed “Simbakubwa kutokaafrika” meaning “big African lion” in Swahili, roamed east Africa about 20 millions years ago.
But the huge creature was part of a now extinct group of mammals called hyaenodonts.
The discovery could help explain what happened to the group.
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