University of Michigan: Fossil Elephant Cranium Reveals Key Adaptations That Enabled Its Species to Thrive as Grasslands Spread Across Eastern Africa
November 10, 2021
November 10, 2021
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Nov. 10 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:
A remarkably well-preserved fossil elephant cranium from Kenya is helping scientists understand how its species became the dominant elephant in eastern Africa several million years ago, a time when a cooler, drier climate allowed grasslands to spread and when habitually bipedal human ancestors first appeared on the landscape.
Dated to 4.5 million years ago and recovere . . .
A remarkably well-preserved fossil elephant cranium from Kenya is helping scientists understand how its species became the dominant elephant in eastern Africa several million years ago, a time when a cooler, drier climate allowed grasslands to spread and when habitually bipedal human ancestors first appeared on the landscape.
Dated to 4.5 million years ago and recovere . . .