Republic of Chile announced on sun that it volition inquire the Natural History inward London to provide the remains of a mylodon, an extinct mammal that lived inward Patagonia close 10,000 years ago.
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| Megatherium americanum skeleton, Natural History Museum, London [Credit: Ballista/WikiCommons] |
"We promise to cause got talks alongside the museum authorities... in addition to essay to repatriate the mylodon's remains; these are bones in addition to peel that are inward storage, non fifty-fifty beingness exhibited," Ward told reporters.
The remains of the mylodon were taken to UK inward 1897 for query exactly were never returned to Chile, according to officials.
The mylodon was an ancestor of the sloth that measured close 2.5 meters (more than viii feet) in addition to weighed close three tons.
High German settlers discovered inward 1896 remains of the mammal inward a cave forthwith known equally "the cave of the mylodon," inward the part of Magallanes, close 3,500 kilometers (2,175 miles) southward of Santiago
On the trip to London, Ward volition last joined past times a delegation seeking the provide of a statue of import to the indigenous people of Easter Island, purpose of Chile.
They desire to sculpt a replacement for the museum in addition to recover the original, which was stolen from the isle inward 1868 past times the English linguistic communication send Topaze.
It is estimated that this moai, equally the statues are known, was created betwixt the twelvemonth 1,000 in addition to 1,600.
Republic of Chile likewise plans to inquire the Kon-Tiki Museum inward Oslo to provide a large collection of historical pieces from Easter Island.
Source: AFP [November 05, 2018]
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