Dr Sanaa El-Sayed's Groundbreaking Work on Vertebrate Fossils in Egypt and the Middle East Earns International Recognition

 Sanaa El-Sayed, an assistant lecturer at Mansoura University's Department of Geology in the Faculty of Science, has been awarded the prestigious American Association of University Women's Award for 2023. This award recognizes Sanaa's outstanding contributions to the field of vertebrate paleontology, specifically her groundbreaking research on vertebrate fossils in Egypt and the Middle East.

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An Egyptian-American team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new kind of large-bodied meat-eating dinosaur, or theropod, from a celebrated fossil site in Egypt’s Sahara Desert.

The fossil of a still-unnamed species provides the first known record of the abelisaurid group of theropods from a middle Cretaceous-aged (approximately 98 million years old) rock unit known as the Bahariya Formation, which is exposed in the Bahariya Oasis of the Western Desert of Egypt.

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Life reconstruction of the extinct protocetid whale Phiomicetus anubis, preying upon a sawfish. Illustration by Dr. Robert W. Boessenecker.

In recent years, insights from fossils have added details to this story, but the big picture of early whale evolution in Africa has largely remained a mystery. Nonetheless, in the Sahara Desert of Egypt, an international team led by Egyptian scientists has discovered a remarkable new amphibious whale, Phiomicetus anubis, from middle Eocene rocks, 43 million years old, that helps complete this picture.

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 (MUVP) center received a delegation from Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Romania.

Prof. Hesham Sallam, Founder of Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology center (MUVP), received on Monday 16 Oct 2020 a delegation from Banat University for Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Timisoara, Romania. The visit has been within the framework of Erasmus Plus project of students and faculty mobility.

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Fayoum’s Zowara ecolodge has officially opened a natural museum on its Fayoum grounds in the heart of Wadi El Rayan of the Western Desert of Egypt, to help document and celebrate the rich history of its protectorate.

With research and participation provided by Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology center (MUVP), the house is home to a variety of fossils, bones, and artifacts, showing off the breadth of Fayoum's wildlife, archeological and paleontological heritage.

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Taking into account the different scientific activities of MUVP Center, a team from the Center was participating in the world's largest conference for vertebrate paleontologists (SVP), which held online from 13 to 17 October 2020, with 6 research abstracts.

The abstracts included a variety of significant and recent findings announced for the first time by the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology center, including a collection of fossils and remains of creatures that roomed on Egypt's land millions of years ago.

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In its index of statistics on its official website, the respected science journal “Nature” announced that the research outputs for Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology center (MUVP) has effectively contributed to raising Mansoura University's ranking

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Dr. Sanaa El-Sayed, the vice-Director of the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology center, has received an official invitation to attend the annual international conference of the Paleontological Association to be held from 16 to 18 December 2020.

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