Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Initiative Seeks to CT Scan Kenya's Unexplored Fossil Trove

What else is unexplored on the huge continent of Africa?

Why are the Kenyan artifacts are taken only to South Africa for CT scanning and nowhere else as this article reports?

"The paleontology collection at the Nairobi National Museum is so vast that the bones of an extinct lion-like carnivore larger than a polar bear went unnoticed for three decades. And they’re so old, there’s a chance whenever curator Job Kibii opens a drawer that the creature inside may be the earliest known of its kind."

Initiative Seeks to CT Scan Kenya's Unexplored Fossil Trove | The Scientist Magazine® A paleontologist at the National Museums of Kenya is spearheading an effort to make 3-D reconstructions of the institution’s fossils available internationally.

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