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Belal Salem
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Egyptian Paleontologist 🦖🦕🐊
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رقمنة الحفريات داخل مركز جامعة المنصورة للحفريات الفقارية مشروع قومي مهم للحفاظ على التراث الطبيعي المصري.
June 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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قرموط وادي الحيتان (Qarmoutus hitanensis)
عاش قرموط وادي الحيتان في مصر قبل حوالي ٤٠ مليون سنه واكتشفه سلام لاب بقيادة الدكتوره سناء السيد ،وبعد هذا البحث الأول من نوعه تنشره سيده من شرق الأوسط كباحث رئيسي
#اكتشافات_سلام_لاب
June 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Our new discovery, led by @shorouqalashqar.bsky.social , has unveiled a new 30-million-year-old species of apex predator, #Bastetodon, in Egypt’s Fayum Desert! Check out the study in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. @matt-borths.bsky.social @erikseiffert.bsky.social #SallamLab #MUVP
February 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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The Fayum remains one of Africa’s most vital fossil sites,” says co-author Matt Borths @matt-borths.bsky.social . Our team is excited to continue exploring this remarkable region to uncover more about ancient African ecosystems. #SallamLab #MUVP
February 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Named after the cat-headed goddess Bastet, Bastetodon is symbolically linked to Sekhmetops, inspired by the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet. Mythology meets science in this incredible find! #SallamLab #MUVP
February 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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This discovery reshapes our understanding of hyaenodont evolution! Bastetodon and its relative Sekhmetops reveal that these ancient carnivores originated in Africa before spreading across the globe.
#SallamLab #MUVP
February 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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It all began when team member Belal Salem @belals.bsky.social spotted large teeth sticking out of the ground. This led to the discovery of a nearly complete skull of Bastetodon, a fearsome leopard-sized carnivore that once roamed ancient lush Fayum forests. #SallamLab #MUVP
February 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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#FossilFriday A small herd of the oreodont Miniochoerus, nestling in death. At the Tate Geological Museum in Wyoming.
January 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Evaluation of the endocranial anatomy of the early Paleogene north African gavialoid crocodylian Argochampsa krebsi and evolutionary implications for adaptation to salinity tolerance in marine crocodyliforms - Pligersdorffer - Journal of Anatomy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Evaluation of the endocranial anatomy of the early Paleogene north African gavialoid crocodylian Argochampsa krebsi and evolutionary implications for adaptation to salinity tolerance in marine crocodyliforms
We reconstructed the endocranial anatomy of Argochampsa krebsi, a fossil gavialoid crocodylian from the early Paleogene of North Africa, identifying potential osteological correlates for salt glands....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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#Spinosaurus land, Egypt
January 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2020 I illustrated DINOSAURS: NEW VISIONS OF A LOST WORLD, by Prof Mike Benton. Here's Sinosauropteryx, the first non-bird feathered dinosaur to be described.
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/dinosa...

#PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #Dinosaurs #Sinosauropteryx
January 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM