User:Abyssal/Prehistory of Africa/DYK/10
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- ... that humans living next to a lake at the Bouri Formation in Ethiopia 160,000 and 154,000 years ago butchered not only adult Hippopotamuses but also those that were newborn?
- ... that members of the fossil insect family Armaniidae have been described as "ant-like wasps"?
- ... that Plesiopithecus, a fossil primate from the late Eocene in Egypt, closely resembles the aye-aye of Madagascar and raises questions about the evolutionary history of lemurs?
- ...that Megazostrodon (pictured) is widely accepted as being one of the first mammals to have appeared on Earth?
- ... that biological anthropologist David Tab Rasmussen enjoyed working in the Neotropics because it allowed him to study both primates and birds, his two favorite subjects?