User:Abyssal/Prehistory of Africa/DYK/17


 * ... that as recently as 500 years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs, referred to as subfossil lemurs, that weighed between 10 and 200 kg?
 * ... that the Egyptian Geological Museum, established in Cairo in 1904, was the first of its kind in Africa?
 * ... that the possibly extinct wall crab spider species Garcorops jadis was named for C.S. Lewis' Jadis, the White Witch?
 * ... that the Cretaceous Malagasy mammal Lavanify is most closely related to a species from India?
 * ... that UA 8699, a broken molar from the Cretaceous of Madagascar, may be the only Mesozoic marsupial from the southern continents?