Nearly 50 years after a mining prospector found some fossilized bones on a remote Philippine mountain, they have been identified in Chicago as an extinct species of dwarf water buffalo ...

The fossil of a newly described species of extinct, dwarf water buffalo was found in the Philippine island of Cebu. While large domestic water buffalo stand six feet at the shoulder and weigh ...

they have been identified in Chicago as those of an extinct species of dwarf water buffalo, apparently shrunken in size after their much larger ancestors were isolated on a small island.

Not all water buffaloes weigh a ton and grow to heights ... Remains of the extinct dwarf buffalo were found 50 years ago in a cave on Cebu, an island in the Philippines, but were not brought ...

Researchers say a box of bones left at a Chicago museum a decade ago by a curious layman has turned out to contain the only known fossils of a dwarf water buffalo that roamed the Philippines in ...

Nearly 50 years after a mining prospector found some mysterious fossilized bones on a remote Philippine mountain, they have been identified as an extinct species of dwarf water buffalo ...

The bones of an extinct dwarf species of buffalo were recently ... The finding supports the idea that the earliest water buffalo were large and first evolved in Southeast Asia.

If not for the attention and foresight of these two individuals, science might never have documented what has turned out to be an extremely unusual species of dwarf water buffalo, now extinct.