For some 40 million years, the Afro-Arabian landmass existed in splendid isolation. A newly described fossil fauna from the end of that time provides a window on the evolution of the continent's large mammals.
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Jaeger, JJ. Isolationist tendencies. Nature 426, 509–511 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/426509a
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