All articles tagged with #masripithecus moghraensis
A 17–18 million-year-old ape jaw from Sinai’s Wadi Maghara is named Masripithecus moghraensis and suggests apes may have originated in North Africa rather than East Africa; the incomplete fossil sits before the great-ape/lesser-ape split, potentially reshaping origin stories, but more complete fossils are needed to confirm.
A fossil from Wadi Moghra in northern Egypt, Masripithecus moghraensis (about 17–18 million years old), may be close to the ancestor of all living apes, challenging the East Africa-centric view. Using Bayesian tip-dating, researchers place it among stem hominoids, suggesting Afro-Arabia and nearby regions were part of early ape evolution, though the fossil record remains sparse and more work is needed.