


From top: Student interest in their most ancient past From left: The Aegyptopithcus is one of the most important specimens in the collection of the Geological Museum. This extraordinary fossilised creature was more advanced than the proconsul Africanus of the Rift Valley; fossilised shark tooth (Late Eocene) with recent shark teeth in the background; an artistic rendition of a large rhino-like creature, of which there are no descendants, that lived some 34 million years ago. Its fossilised remains were found in the Qatrani formation of Fayoum parent page (7 - 13 October 2004, issue #711)