Scientists thought these seals evolved in the north. 3-million-year-old fossils from New Zealand suggest otherwise
- Written by James Patrick Rule, Palaeontology PhD Candidate, Monash University
A fossil discovery in New Zealand has revealed a new species of monk seal that once called Australasia home. We introduce the three million-year-old seal, Eomonachus belegaerensis, in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Eomonachus is the first monk seal species, living or extinct, ever found in the southern...





