Primatology.netMar 27
A 17-million-year-old jaw from Egypt just challenged where all living apes originated. One mandible from the desert, and the field’s East Africa-centered model is under serious pressure. #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #Miocene https://www.primatology.net/p/a-jaw-from-egypt-rewrites-the-origin
A Jaw from Egypt Rewrites the Origin of Modern Apes

A newly described Early Miocene ape from northern Egypt suggests the common ancestor of all living apes lived in a region that paleontologists had largely stopped looking.

Primatology.net
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Mar 26

#Masripithecus: A new #Miocene ape from #Egypt sheds light on the origins of modern apes
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-masripithecus-miocene-ape-egypt-modern.html paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz4102

"Masripithecus provides a crucial intermediate link between the previously disjunct African and Eurasian fossil records, revealing that #apes were already diversifying in the area and therefore positioned to expand into Europe and Asia as soon as land connections were established."

💧🌏 Greg CocksMar 19
Neogene Uplift Of The Chiribiquete Tabletop Mountains In The Colombian Amazon And Its Paleobiogeographic Implications
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113645 <-- shared paper
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H/T Richard F. Ott
“The Chiribiquete are table top mountains located deep in the Colombian Amazon and host many rare endemic species. Helanlin Xiang's work shows that the Chiribiquete Mountains likely upifted before the Early Miocene and could have acted as a long-lived stepping stone, connecting species in the Andes with the Guyana Shield…”
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#Miocene #Paleogeography #Palynology #Amazonia #Caquetá #paleobiogeography #Columbia #Amazon #jungle #geomorphology #neogene #uplift #geology #structuralgeology #tectonics #Chiribiquete #tabletopmountains #Andes #GuyanaShield #dating #isotopes #biome #ecosystem #tepui #elevation #sedimentology #stratigraphy #Araracuara #fluvial #lacustrine #deposition orogeny #regional #uplift #drainage #hydrography #hydrology #river #network #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #geophysics #seismology
madCamMar 11

On This Day 11th March 2002.

Miocene on stage at The Roadhouse, 11th March 2002.

5 photos behind the link.
https://madcam.co.uk/2026/03/11/on-this-day-11th-march-2002/

#Manchester #TheRoadhouse #Miocene #OnThisDay #LondonBands #ManchesterMusic #LiveMusic #photography

StantonMar 8
Palaeocarassius priscus, syn. Cyprinus priscus #sciart #carp #cyprinus #carassius #palaeocarassius #germany #miocene
StantonMar 8
Palaeocarassius basalticus #sciart #palaeocarassius #chubby_fish #carassius #carp #cyprinidae #miocene #france
StantonMar 8
Coreoperca maruoi #siniperca #sinipercidae #miocene #japan #coreoperca #iki_island #nagasaki
StantonMar 8
Siniperca ikikoku #iki_island #nagasaki #japan #siniperca #sinipercidae #miocene
StantonMar 8
WIP Siniperca ikikoku #iki_island #nagasaki #japan #siniperca #sinipercidae #miocene
StantonMar 8
WIP Coreoperca maruoi #siniperca #sinipercidae #miocene #japan #coreoperca