Past Time co-host Matt Borths published a study that identified a new species of now-extinct carnivorous mammal from Egypt. The animal was near the top of the African food chain when Africa was cut off from the other continents. It lived in the same swampy ecosystem that was home to our earliest monkey-like relatives!
The discovery of Masrasector nananubis allowed Matt and Dr. Seiffert to delve into the ancient lives of a mysterious group of African carnivorous mammals. With the scans of the specimens and the measurements accessible online, “tiny Anubis” can continue to guide researchers through the evolution and extinction of Africa’s first meat-eating mammals.
Here’s a link to the original paper in the open access journal PLOS ONE http://journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... if you want to take a look at the original fossils. You can even see them in 3D at www.morphosource.org
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