“But in 1972 Dutch palaeontologists Bert Boekschoten and Paul Sondaar announced that the bones came from an unusual, tiny hippo, which they named Phanourios minor – ’small manifested saint’; the cave had been visited for centuries by villagers seeking the fossilised bones of their ‘saint’, who they believed could cure various maladies.1.”

“But in 1972 Dutch palaeontologists Bert Boekschoten and Paul Sondaar announced that the bones came from an unusual, tiny hippo, which they named Phanourios minor – ’small manifested saint’; the cave had been visited for centuries by villagers seeking the fossilised bones of their ‘saint’, who they believed could cure various maladies.1.”

— Tim Flannery