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(Photo credit: Branko Jalžić/Slobodna Dalmacija) A sensational discovery has been made deep in a cave on the Croatian island of Korčula. Fossil remains of fish teeth from the group of the extinct Pycnodontiformes (pycnodonts) fish were found in Postrana in the village of Žrnovo on Korčula. According to experts, the remains are around 60 million years old, writes Dora Lozica for A 43-meter-deep speleological object, Borovčeva cave in the centre of the hamlet of Postrana, was discovered by chance more than two years ago. The cave was named after Tonči Borovac who discovered it by accident when he was looking for a suitable place to plant a linden tree.