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Africa: Discovery of Ancient DNA From Antelope Fossils in South Africa Opens a New Window On the Past
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (751+ words) Across Africa, climates are warmer and DNA preservation in fossil remains is generally much poorer....As a result, there have been few ancient DNA studies of African large mammals, and the few that have...Our findings mean two main things:…...
Fossils that rewrite Africa’s deep past
3+ week, 3+ day ago (747+ words) Bahariya Oasis has yielded spectacular fossils that have helped shape scientific understanding of Africa...dinosaurs, fossil fishes and crocodyliforms that once inhabited an ancient river system in North Africa...record of Abelisauridae from the Bahariya Formation.2 The discovery expanded understanding…...
A massive plume deep beneath Africa is pulling the continent apart
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1058+ words) Computer models are helping scientists explain a puzzling pattern of deformation beneath the East African...The results point to the African Superplume, a vast upwelling of hot mantle material deep inside Earth...The East African Rift System, the largest continental…...
Three hidden regions may be feeding East Africa’s volcanoes - Dailynewsegypt
4+ week, 56+ min ago (697+ words) From a distance, active and ancient volcanoes in East Africa and across the central Indian Ocean may...The locations included the Afar region of Ethiopia, other parts of East Africa, the Comoros Islands,...
50,000-year-old tooth rewrites what scientists thought about African DNA
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (288+ words) A tooth pulled from a cave in the Western Cape may hold the oldest animal DNA ever recovered in Africa...remarkable, but what makes it scientifically significant is what it challenges: the long-held belief that Africa's..."Imagine if Africa could…...
Africa???s Giant Herbivores Were Disappearing Millions of Years Before Humans Could Hunt Them
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (649+ words) Africa’s giant herbivores did not simply vanish in a wave of extinctions....species of herbivorous mammals (hippopotamuses, antelopes, and giraffes, among others) that lived in Africa...That second scenario appears to have shaped the history of Africa’s largest…...
Discovery of ancient DNA from antelope fossils in South Africa opens a new window on the past
1+ week, 1+ day ago (786+ words) Across Africa, climates are warmer, and DNA preservation in fossil remains is generally much poorer....As a result, there have been few ancient DNA studies of African large mammals, and the few that have...Our findings mean two main things:…...
Africa’s Geological Data Race: Xcalibur Expands Its Footprint Across The Continent
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (216+ words) The Sierra Leone programme highlights an important point: despite Xcalibur’s expanding footprint, Africa...More importantly, it reflects a broader change in how African governments view mineral information....As the DRC, Zambia, Nigeria and other African countries accelerate geological mapping, the…...
Saudi Arabia puts Aramco into $2.5 trillion minerals race, creating a new rival and buyer for Africa
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1302+ words) zinc, lead and rare earths, creating both an opportunity and a competitive threat for mineral-rich African...For Africa, the significance extends beyond the possibility of another source of Gulf investment....At the same time, its planned processing plants could eventually…...
New dinosaurs are popping up in Africa. Scientists think it could be just the 'tip of the iceberg"
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1155+ words) a study published in July, opening a new window into a key period of prehistory and spotlighting Africa's...Of those, maybe one in 10 has a skull," Choiniere, professor of comparative biology at South Africa's...