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Scientists know far less about what happened to fishes in the seas during the first few million years after the dinosaur extinction
When an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million years ago, it ended the age of dinosaurs and transformed life across the planet. The effects of
THE CONVERSATION
When an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million years ago, it ended the age of dinosaurs and transformed life across the planet. The effects of that catastrophe are visible in the fossil record on land, but scientists know far less about what happened to fishes in the seas during the first
Discover Magazine
Fish fossils from a 62.2 million-year-old Egyptian site may be rewriting what we know about marine evolution and filling in vital gaps in the prehistoric record.
It may be hard to imagine, but Egypt’s golden desert was once mostly
National Geographic
An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Paleontologists excavating a 62.2-million-year-old rock layer in
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
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
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,