User:Abyssal/Prehistory of Africa/DYK/8


 * ...that eighty years on, scientists are still debating whether the Palæozoic fossils known as Chitinozoans (SEM image pictured) represent plants, animals or eggs?
 * ... that in the Border Cave of Swaziland a 35,000 years old tally stick has been found in the 1970s?
 * ... that the sloth lemurs   of the genus Mesopropithecus   were once thought to be indriids   due to the similarities between their skulls and those of living sifakas?
 * ...that the funerary art (pictured) of many cultures includes psychopomps, like the Zapotec bat god, who conduct souls to the afterlife?
 * ... that the identification of azibiids, a type of fossil primate including Azibius, as either strepsirrhine or haplorine weighs heavily on the African or Asian origins of primates?