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VRISSA (Small town) MYTILINI
Vrissa is at the southern part of Lesvos, 51 km away from Mytilene.
In the beautiful the village, the history of which goes far back in ancient times
there is the very interesting Natural History Collection which includes paleontologic
finds, discovered in clay deposits in and around lakes and streams.
The finds include fossilized parts of rare land and sea animals and
fossilized flora with an average age of two million years.The most important animal
fossils discovered are: the jawbone and other parts of the skeleton of two proboscides
- ancestors of today’s elephant - and in various locations fossilized horse bones
of various sizes, bones and jawbones of the carnivorous Nyctereutes megamastoides
- a relative of today’s nyctereutes- bones of giraffes, deer, antelopes, gazelles,
bovines and bones of tortoises (one of the most impressive finds are the bones
of a giant tortoise 2.5 m. long). However the most amazing among the finds is
an extremely rare family of giant apes, belonging to the species of Paradolipithecus,
the earliest representative of the species in Europe. The discovery of the above
finds resulted in the creation of the Natural History Collection, which is housed
for the time being in the building of Vrissa’s school.
This text is cited May 2003 from the Prefecture of Lesvos URL below, which contains images.
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