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Newly discovered primate species could redraw the ape family tree

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.
Most early ape fossils paleontologists have

An Early Miocene ape from the biogeographic crossroads of African and Eurasian Hominoidea

Science
The vast majority of early hominoid fossil hunting has occurred in East Africa, where a trove of early fossils and lineages have been found.
Other regions in Africa have been less

These 17-Million-Year-Old Fossils Could Rewrite the Evolutionary Tree of Apes—Including Humans

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

18-Million-Year-Old Ape Fossil From Egypt Suggests Modern Apes Originated Outside 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,

Ancient Crocodile Fossil from Egyptian Desert Rewrites One of Earth's Greatest Survival Stories

Discover Magazine
Egyptian paleontologists could look 80 million years into the past by analyzing fossils belonging to the Dyrosauridae clade, the ancient cousins of modern crocodiles. What’s more, their descriptions,

Formidable crocodile-like predator discovered in Egyptian desert

DISCOVERwildlife
Fossils of the four-metre-long prehistoric crocodile were found in the sun-baked Western Desert.
Palaeontologists have discovered a new species of ancient marine crocodile

Fossil proves crocodiles originated from this part of the world

Macon
A sharp-toothed fossil found in an Egyptian desert proves that sea-going crocodiles originated in Africa, according to scientists.
They say the earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile,

Earliest crocodile ancestor unearthed in Egypt

science.org
Fossil firmly establishes North Africa as the “cradle” of marine crocodile evolution
Sobek was an ancient Egyptian crocodile god—

Newly discovered primate species could redraw the ape family tree

An Early Miocene ape from the biogeographic crossroads of African and Eurasian Hominoidea

These 17-Million-Year-Old Fossils Could Rewrite the Evolutionary Tree of Apes—Including Humans

18-Million-Year-Old Ape Fossil From Egypt Suggests Modern Apes Originated Outside East Africa

Ancient Crocodile Fossil from Egyptian Desert Rewrites One of Earth's Greatest Survival Stories

Formidable crocodile-like predator discovered in Egyptian desert

Fossil proves crocodiles originated from this part of the world

Earliest crocodile ancestor unearthed in Egypt

science.org
Fossil firmly establishes North Africa as the “cradle” of marine crocodile evolution
Sobek was an ancient Egyptian crocodile god—

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Fossil firmly establishes North Africa as the “cradle” of marine crocodile evolution
Sobek was an ancient Egyptian crocodile god—