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I found this Proboscid tooth on a riverbank in Kenya. Is it a recent one from L. africana or something older? It is about 9 or 10 cm long.
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Chameleons may have 'rafted' from Africa to Madagascar - Open Access Papers
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Kenyan fossil reveals chameleons may have 'rafted' from Africa to Madagascar by Andrej Čerňanský, The Conversation https://phys.org/news/2020-02-kenyan-fossil-reveals-chameleons-rafted.html The open access papers are: Tolley, K.A., Townsend, T.M. and Vences, M., 2013. Large-scale phylogeny of chameleons suggests African origins and Eocene diversification. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1759), p.20130184. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2013.0184 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2013.0184 Čerňanský, A., Herrel, A., Kibii, J.M., Anderson, C.V., Boistel, R. and Lehmann, T., 2020. The only complete articulated early Miocene chameleon skull (Rusinga Island, Kenya) suggests an African origin for Madagascar’s endemic chameleons. Scientific Reports, 10(1), pp.1-11. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-57014-5 A related paper is: Kappeler, P.M., 2000. Lemur origins: rafting by groups of hibernators?. Folia Primatologica, 71(6), pp.422-425. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12174623_Lemur_Origins_Rafting_by_Groups_of_Hibernators https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Kappeler/4 Yours, Paul-
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Smallest Ape Species EVER Discovered in Kenya !!!
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https://news.stonybrook.edu/facultystaff/tiniest-ever-fossil-ape-discovered-in-kenya/ I thought this was interesting.- 1 reply
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This has nothing to do with fossils. However, it is quite fascinating. Unfortunately, neither video provide any details about what caused this crack. It is like the opening scene of a disaster movie. If this happened in my back yard, I would be seriously freaked out and quite worried. Huge crack opens in Kenya's Rift Valley Part of a highway has collapsed after a crack opened up in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Several families have been evacuated from the Suswa area in the south-western part of the country. http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-43501954/huge-crack-opens-in-kenya-s-rift-valley Africa is splitting into two after tear in Kenya’s Rift Valley https://face2faceafrica.com/article/africa-splitting-two-tear-kenyas-rift-valley-video Yours, Paul H.
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http://www.newsweek.com/gigantic-lion-africa-extinct-200000-years-860353?piano_t=1
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On a recent safari through northern Kenya my son picked up a fossil while we were in Sibiloi National Park, Turkana Kenya. After a closer examination I could see that it was the top of an ungulates skull. Here are some images of the skull. I took some basic measurements and we returned the skull to where we found it. Rufous and I would very much like to know what species of antelope this might be. Many of the other fossils in the area appear to be shells, fish verterbra, and crocodian and turtle discoveries have been made close by. Many Thanks for your ideas.
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Discovery of 13 million-year-old ape skull shows what human ancestors may have looked like By Amy B Wang, Washington Post, August 9, 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/08/09/discovery-of-13-million-year-old-ape-skull-shows-what-human-ancestors-may-have-looked-like/ New 13-million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape ancestry, PhysOrg, August 9, 2017 https://phys.org/news/2017-08-million-year-old-infant-skull-ape-ancestry.html The paper is: Nengo, I., P. Tafforeau, C. C. Gilbert, and others, 2017, New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds light on ape evolution. Nature 548, 169–174 (10 August 2017) doi:10.1038/nature23456 Received 19 March 2017 Accepted 04 July 2017 Published online 09 August 2017 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v548/n7666/full/nature23456.html Yours, Paul H.
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Homo erectus Groups Made Intensive use of Lake Margin Habitats
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Roach, N. T., K. G. Hatala, K. R. Ostrofsky, B. Villmoare, J. S. Reeves, Andrew Du, D. R. Braun, J. W. K. Harris, A. K. Behrensmeyer, and B. G. Richmond, 2016, Pleistocene footprints show intensive use of lake margin habitats by Homo erectus groups. Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 26374 (2016) doi:10.1038/srep26374 http://www.nature.com/articles/srep26374 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303372868_Pleistocene_footprints_show_intensive_use_of_lake_margin_habitats_by_Homo_erectus_groups https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/28928 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:27662266 "Supplementary Material for Pleistocene footprints show intensive use of lake margin habitats by Homo erectus groups" at http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:2305755/component/escidoc:2305754/Roach_Pleistocene_SciRep_2016_Suppl.pdf Yours, Paul H. -
Hi guys, I've been collecting giant fossil tridacna for 20 years. Some of my clams are up to 400 kg but just before Christmas I received a clam that is the biggest I've ever seen! It weighs in at a staggering 612 kg (both sides are still attached by fossil rock which I estimate weighs around 100-140 kg) Is this a world record? Will upload photos, this must be the world's biggest clam surely? How do I upload a photo on this site? (Seeing = believing!!) Best Volker Bassen
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