{"id":12454,"date":"2025-10-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.triopsgalaxy.de\/flusspferde-im-eiszeitalter\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:28:42","slug":"hippopotamuses-in-the-ice-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triopsgalaxy.de\/en\/hippopotamuses-in-the-ice-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Palaeontology: Hippopotamuses in the Ice Age \u2013 Colossal creatures roamed the Upper Rhine Graben"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New analyses reveal that these heat-loving animals survived in Central Europe much longer than previously thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has long been known that hippos once lived in Central Europe. But now a new study has caused quite a stir: these impressive animals, which today are only found in sub-Saharan Africa, apparently lived on German soil for much longer than previously assumed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Potsdam, the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums and the Curt Engelhorn Centre for Archaeometry in Mannheim has re-examined bone finds from the Upper Rhine Graben \u2013 with remarkable results. Radiocarbon dating and DNA analyses show that hippopotamuses still lived there between 47,000 and 31,000 years ago. They shared their Ice Age environment with mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses at a time when Europe was long dominated by cold temperatures and glaciers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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