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ABSTRACT During the Paleogene in Afro-Arabia, most terrestrial mammalian carnivores belonged to Hyaenodonta, an extinct lineage bearing a pair of carnassials between each set of molars. The Fayum Depression of Egypt preserves multiple lineages of hyaenodonts across the Eocene–Oligocene boundary. Here, we describe one of the most complete hyaenodont crania ever recovered from the lower Oligocene of the Fayum (Jebel Qatrani Formation, Quarry I, ∼30 Ma).
A long-lost species has now been rediscovered alive and well. The Somali sengi, a small, insect-eating mammal that hasn’t been seen in over 40 years, has turned up in East Africa, with researchers snapping the first-ever photos and video of them in the wild. Sengis are a group of adorable little mammals that look like mice, but are actually more closely related to elephants, manatees and aardvarks. As such, they’re often called elephant shrews.
Propotto leakeyi was originally described by Simpson as a lorisiform strepsirrhine that might be related to the extant lorisid Perodicticus (commonly known as the potto)21. The hypodigm available to Simpson included the holotype (KNM-SO 508, his specimen “R”; KNM = National Museums of Kenya), a right mandible with P -M and alveoli for P and M as well as a small portion of the root of an enlarged anterior tooth (Figs.
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