Wake Forest anthropologist featured on National Geographic's 'Wild Chronicles'
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Wake Forest University anthropologist Ellen Miller is among the scientists deciphering the secrets of a trove of small mammal fossils discovered in a quarry in Egypt. The 20-million-year-old bones and teeth found in the Egyptian desert may shed light on the origins of present-day African wildlife.
The story is the subject of a segment of the award-winning television series “Wild Chronicles,” currently airing on public television stations. “Wild Chronicles” is produced by National Geographic Television and presented by WLIW21 in association with WNET.ORG.
Miller is working with University of Michigan paleontologists Philip Gingerich, Gregg Gunnell, William Sanders, and Ahmed El-Barkooky of Cairo University.
After Gingerich found the fossil site in the area of Khasm El Raqaba, Miller was asked to study some of the fossils he found there. She is an expert on the evolution of African mammals and identified a few rodent jaws, bat jaws and some teeth.
Miller, who also studies fossil remains of African mammals at another site in Egypt, hopes the discovery of these bones of small mammals from the same period will provide missing pieces of an ancient animal immigrant story.
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