2024-06-28 11:01:21
In an interview with MAP, Professor El Albani explains this discovery which made the entrance web page this Friday of the main American journal “Science”.
1- You have been on the origin of a significant geological discovery in Morocco revealed by the main American journal “Science”. What’s it precisely?
These are arthropod-type fossils discovered petrified in 3D of their closing posture. They’re representatives of an ecosystem 515 million years outdated (Ma), a marine “Pompeii”, found in ranges of volcanic ash, at Aït Youb, within the Souss-Massa area in Morocco. This work was topped by the duvet of Science journal. That is the very best preservation of fossil life varieties in volcanic ash ever noticed on the earth to this point. Simply distinctive on the earth. We observe all the small print, even micrometric ones, together with the digestive tract, the abdomen, and many others. The specimens are neither deformed nor altered. It’s a 3D {photograph} of the time (515 million years) with out change.
2- What does the publication of this work by the American journal “Science” imply to you?
An honor, a privilege and an achievement for a motivated and competent worldwide crew that I’ve been main for a number of years. “Science” is without doubt one of the two greatest scientific magazines on the earth. Now we have additionally obtained the duvet of this prestigious American journal, which can additional contribute to Morocco’s affect on a global scale.
3- What advice do you make to the scientific group and the authorities accountable for heritage for the event of the Ait Youb website?
My essential advice and on the similar time concern is to place all attainable means to guard the Moroccan geological and paleontological heritage. To make sure that this website and others are labeled as UNESCO world heritage websites. In any other case, these websites might sadly disappear. It’s a query of defending this heritage and opening it on the similar time to science and scientists.
2024-06-28 11:01:21