The year 2018 is a beautiful year of paleontology.

Discovering new types of fossils and fossils Causing new understanding About ancestors, humans and animals Making an important year of paleontology Starting from the femur, Toumai or Sahelanthropus tchadensis, found in northern Chad in 2001. It is said that about 7 million years ago are a new species of the group of hominins. Human Species But earlier this year, experts argued that new information could change the face of the story of human evolution.

And as we know, giant dinosaurs wandered on ancient African lands as Paralis Titan (Paralitan), originally from Egypt, weighs about 60,000 kilograms and lives in the Upper Cretaceous. Or Brachiosaurus (Brachiosaurus), Tanzania's long-necked long-necked dinosaur And Sporosaurus (Spinosaurus), a species of carnivorous species found in Niger and North Africa. The parents of Tyrannosaurus rex, but recently The concept of giant dinosaur has changed. After discovering the Ledumahadi mafube, 200 years old, South African, weighing about 12,000 kilograms, which is a very large dinosaur at the beginning of the Jurassic.

In addition, the discovery of fossils of mammalian-like reptiles, a 190-year-old cynodontes and 38 other baby bones, provoked a new examination of the reptilian family. And exciting is the discovery of two amphibians in South Africa. Especially the tetrapods that can bind the missing spaces between the fish Amphibian Reptile And can signal the change of life that comes to earth.

Ledumahadi mafube Credit: Viktor Radermacher