Aisha Mansurey @WORLDLOVERPEACE #Libya opens doors to 28-million-year-old discoverieshttp://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/vergano/2013/02/23/libya-fossil-dig/1939501/ … Hide summary Reply Retweet Favorite Buffer More Libya opens doors to 28-million-year-old discoveries A first scientific expedition to Libya following its revolution has returned with news about humanity's earliest ancestors USA TODAY @USATODAY · Follow 1RETWEET A first scientific expedition to post-revolution Libya has returned with more news of humanity's earliest monkey-like ancestors. (Photo: Chris Beard / Carnegie Museum of Natural History) STORY HIGHLIGHTS A science expedition to post-revolution Libya reports success looking for fossils The January expedition traveled to Libya's Zallah oasis, aided by University of Tripoli researchers The team reports Libyan scientists are eager for more scientific collaborations Once the Sahara Desert bloomed, a vast plain filled with curious creatures, crocodiles, elephants and the spindly predecessors to today's monkeys, apes and people. Now, a first scientific expedition to post-revolution Libya has returned with some news of humanity's earliest ancestors from that desert. Despite the horrific Sept.11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, which killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, the expedition team says Libya offers the promise of a once-forbidden corner of the world filled with hidden discoveries opening to future exploration once more. "The scientists there, most people there, with the civil war over, they want a return to normalcy, and lives that are part of the wider world," says expedition paleontologist Christopher Beard of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. Near Libya's Zallah oasis, some 800 miles deep in the sand-draped Sahara...
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