https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg By Anna Luke en-us 2022-04-14 09:05:38 UTC 2022-04-14 18:40:01 UTC hello@padlet.com annaluke https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143665973 2022-04-14 09:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143665973 annaluke https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143670955 South Africa has many fossils, including hominid ones. This is why it is often called the Cradle of Humankind. 
Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge Africa's other biggest fossil hotspot. 
However they can be found in plenty of other African countries.]]> 2022-04-14 09:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143670955 annaluke https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143675279 Kimeu is a Kenyan who has dedicated his life to finding the evidence for the story of our African origins.

Kimeu's career was viewed negatively because...
Digging up the bones of ancestors is considered taboo. 
Christian Africans believed that evolutionary theories contradict religious creationism.

]]> 2022-04-14 09:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143675279 annaluke https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143677028 Throughout history, foreign explorers have received most of the glory for Africa's fossils. Even today, the nation’s dinos tend to go to Europe America for frustrating reasons. Wealthier countries offer temperature-controlled rooms that prevent bones from damage. However, Niger’s best museum is infested with termites.


]]> 2022-04-14 09:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143677028 annaluke https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143683935 In 1974 one of the oldest known hominid fossils was discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia. Nicknamed Lucy. Donald Johanson and Maurice Taieb named the skeleton Lucy after the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which was played at the celebration when she was found.]]> 2022-04-14 09:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143683935 annaluke https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143686484 Though Africa is widely known as the birthplace of humankind, its incredibly varied fossil record is often doesn't get much attention. Many of Earth's main life forms originated in Africa: bacteria organisms, plenty dinosaur species and, of course, primates (humans). Even the rocks of Africa are among the oldest in the world. ]]> 2022-04-14 09:42:36 UTC https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143686484 annaluke https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143691290 While bones are important records of SA's past, they will also be crucial to explaining its future... 

As the climate crisis bends ever nearer to extinction, South Africa's fossil record and researchers interpreting it are painting a portrait of the runaway plot of events that happens once the atmosphere rises beyond a certain temperature - as they've seen it before!]]> 2022-04-14 09:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143691290 annaluke https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143692703 Lucy's a game-changer in our knowledge of human evolution during the Pliocene period. Important observations include:

A team’s conclusion that Australopithecus anamnesis and Australopithecus afarensis coexisted for a period of at least 100,000 years. Also, Australopithecus anamnesis is the oldest known member of the genus Australopithecus.]]> 2022-04-14 09:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143692703 annaluke https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143700303 IN THIS PRESENTATION READTHROUGH, YOU WILL LEARN ABOUT

-THE PALEONTOLOGY INDUSTRY IN AFRICA
-FOSSILS FOUND IN AFRICA
-SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATIONS MANDE THANKS TO AFRICA'S FOSSIL RECORD!

]]> 2022-04-14 10:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143700303 annaluke https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143702630 2022-04-14 10:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143702630 annaluke https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143706768 South Africa and Argentina - Although today both countries are separated by the Atlantic Ocean, they were once neighbors in the Pangaea (SEE IMAGE!!!) This explains why researchers have discovered similar fossils of gigantic animals on both the continents.]]> 2022-04-14 10:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2143706768 annaluke https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2144220316 2022-04-14 18:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2144220316 annaluke https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2144220890 2022-04-14 18:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2144220890 annaluke https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2144222702 2022-04-14 18:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/annaluke/xj4o7svnip351upg/wish/2144222702