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Good day to all of you. I have come to discover an amazing site in a remote location of the Serengeti: a dry river bed with hundreds of bones and what looks like stone tools too. The relevant authorities have been informed and i am still waiting for their visit. I have attached a few pics of what i found. Owing to the park rules, I may not pick up a few samples for proper photos. So i tried what i could Since we are not very far from Olduvai Gorge, i do believe this site to be of high importance. I would really appreciate any info on the pictured findings I am going to the site again t
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An interesting article about a new sauropod from Tanzania: http://phys.org/news/2014-09-species-titanosaurian-dinosaur-tanzania.html The discovery of a titanosaur from the Middle Cretaceous deposits in Tanzania is significant in many respects. First, it represents the third diagnostic titanosaur from Cretaceous sediments in sub-Saharan Africa. Second, it bolsters the hypothesis by Paul Sereno and colleagues that the breakup of Gondwana was a rather gradual one, so a number of titanosaurs known from South America may also have inhabited sub-Saharan Africa at a time when South America was sl
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From the album: My fossils collection
Spinosaurus. aegyptiacus tooth from Kem Kem bed Morocco, Cretaceous period -
Andrews' Perspectives On Geographic Origin Of Human Ancestors
DD1991 posted a topic in Questions & Answers
With regards to early studies of the geographic origins of mankind's relatives, it's important to know that Australopithecus was discovered two years after Roy Chapman Andrews went to Mongolia to try to find the earliest human ancestors. I know that Andrews never found early human ancestors in Mongolia and Australopithecus is three million years older than any of the early human beings discovered before Andrews' expedition to Mongolia, but Andrews and Osborn did not expect a human relative to be found in Africa. Would Andrews have considered the possibility of Africa being the cradle of mankin
