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When it comes to looks, the long-necked dinosaur Mansourasaurus shaninae isn’t all that remarkable. But the new species of sauropod is still turning heads among paleontologists.
The story of the Mansourasaurus discovery began in December of 2013, when I received an invitation to give a talk about vertebrate paleontology at New Valley University in Kharga Oasis in southern Egypt.
Nature Asia
An Egyptian team documents a new species of fossilized catfish.
Among the invaluable fossil remains of some the earliest sea creatures at the natural reserve of the Whale Valley in Egypt’s Western Desert, an Egyptian team has uncovered an unknown marine species: a 37 million-
Egypt Independent
Wadi el-Hitan (Valley of Whales) is a desert in Fayoum full of dramatic landscapes where, from time to time, scientists have been surprised to unearth remarkable collections of various eocene vertebrate species, particularly whales, which caused UNESCO to designate it as a World
DISCOVER MAGAZINE
Discover Sanaa El-Sayed, the pioneering paleontologist from Egypt, instrumental in researching ancient fish like Qarmoutus hitanensis.
Egyptian paleontologist Sanaa El-Sayed, shown here in the field, is the first woman vertebrate paleontologist from the Middle East to be first author