A
fossil found in 2008 may be the missing link — for manatees, that is.
Modern manatees and
their lookalike relatives, the dugongs, are close relatives of elephants, yet
no trace of their ancestry had ever been found in Africa, where elephants
evolved.
Then
a small piece of skull was found unexpectedly in Tunisia. The fossil, which
scientists have been able to identify as from an extinct sea cow, re-roots the
origin of manatees in Africa, said study researcher Julian Benoit of the
University of Science and Technology in Montpellier, France.
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