National Geographic
An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our modern ape ancestors.
The vast majority of early hominoid fossil hunting has occurred in East Africa, where a trove of early fossils and lineages have been found.
Smithsonian Magazine
Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what’s now North Africa or the Arabian Peninsula, rather than in East Africa
Discover Magazine
The fossil belongs to a newly identified species, Masripithecus moghraensis, which lived about 17 to 18 million years ago during the Early Miocene. Described in Science,
Discover Magazine
Egyptian paleontologists could look 80 million years into the past by analyzing fossils belonging to the Dyrosauridae clade,
Macon
A sharp-toothed fossil found in an Egyptian desert proves that sea-going crocodiles originated in Africa, according to scientists.