It sounds like the twist in a sci-fi movie or an abandoned plotline on 'Lost,' but new research reveals some of the largest (and probably scariest) sea creatures lived in what is now the Sahara Desert.
It sounds like the twist in a sci-fi movie or an abandoned plotline on"Lost," but new research reveals some of the largest sea creatures lived in what is now the Sahara Desert.
The paper, published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, details an ancient body of water called the Trans-Sarahan Seaway, which covered parts of Western Africa 100 million to 50 million years ago. For two decades, scientists examined fossils and sediment in present-day Mali to form an accurate picture of what this prehistoric environment looked like.
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