Zoologists say further excavations are needed in the Lunugala foothills at the foot of the Madolsima and Rila tile fossils where rhinoceros fossils were found 26 years ago.
The fossil was found in 1996 in a 62-foot-deep gem mine by the owner of the mine, Mohamed Qasim.
“This thorn was found there. When I picked it up, there were a lot of thorns. Could not take it. There’s one like a miracle. The government looked at it from here. ”
Kelum Nalinda Manamendra Arachchi, a veterinarian at the Postgraduate Institute of Archeology, who is conducting research on the subject, said that the fossils of the rhinoceros were identified as those of a mother and calf that lived about 80,000 years ago.
“There are two rhinoceros skulls under the ground. They were tested by a special machine to see how old it is. It is 80,000 years old today. It seems that the rhinoceros lived in Sri Lanka today. The young skulls, the other skulls, are still buried at 62 feet, one of the most significant biological sites in Sri Lanka, and we have to dig all 62 feet to find the remains of both skulls. “
