A faculty member of Ankara University (AU), Prof. Ayla Sevim Erol, excavated from the Çankırı province fossil remains of elephants, rhinos, horses, pigs, giraffes, goats, deer, sheep, and the saber-toothed tiger all dating back 8 million 3 thousand 300 years. The fossils will be introduced at the Congress of European Paleontology (Avrupa Paleontoloji Kongresi), which will be held in Italy from August 25 to 28.

"Most remarkably fossil exhibits at the moment it Çankırı Museum will be serrated or saber-toothed tigers," Professor Erol said.

The lecturer at Ankara University's Faculty of Language, History and Geography Faculty and Department of Anthropology, Dr. Prof. Ayla Sevim Erol, also said, "Around 3300 fossils of elephants, rhinos, horses, pigs, giraffes, goats, deer, sheep, and tiger species living 8 million years earlier were excavated from the 'Barren Places Vertebrate Fossil Locality,' and they will be introduced in the congress."

Prof. Erol indicated that over 20 of the excavation areas in Çankırı achieve these kinds of ruins.

"Unique species lived only here. They'll tell Europe. We are trying to show how the connection with Europe, Africa or Asia was," she said.

"In congress the Çankırı tiger; saber-toothed tigers, giraffes and elephants specific to this region see a lot of interest. The distribution of these species in the world will describe the importance of the barren ground," she said.

In retrospect to the transfers of the domain migration routes in Çankırı, Erol said: "With barren places or other fossil localities in Anatolia, the diversity or spread of animals in Europe is important. There is a period of drought and climate change in the remains we found. Therefore, they must find an environment for these animals. So what they do is migrate northward if they can find a suitable environment in the north. If it finds a suitable environment in the West or the East it will migrate there. The animals come here before passing to the north, using eastern Anatolia as a way to turn back. Therefore we are able to evaluate migration as ways of Anatolia and the barren land."