A cemetery of prehistoric animals was unearthed in Kriopigi, Chalkidiki in northern Greece by a team of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki paleontologists.

They discovered a great number of fossilized bones belonging to animals that used to live in the region between 5 and 7 million years ago.

The most important discovery is the bones of a primate that lived 5-7 million years ago. They also discovered the bones of two kinds of prehistoric horses, gazelles, antilopes, giraffes, prehistoric elephants and carnivores.

According to scientists, the region was a savanna similar to those found in Africa today. Fossilized trees estimated to be about 20 million years old were also discovered at a close distance, near the town of Fourka.