Once widespread across Morocco’s Atlas mountains, the Barbary leopard gradually vanished over the decades, leaving behind only scattered sightings, tracks, and testimonies.
A new international study reveals that Morocco’s remote Oudiksou Basin holds one of Africa’s best-preserved records of the period surrounding the dinosaur extinction, capturing a rare transition from marine to continental environments. The site contains fossils of sharks, mammals, and dinosaurs, making it a key location for understanding how ecosystems changed before and after the K–Pg extinction event.
North Africa once had its own brown bear, the Atlas bear, which is believed to have lived in Morocco's Atlas Mountains until the 19th century. The one and only documented sighting of this beast dates back to 1841 near Tetouan.
In a recent study, scientists have announced the extinction of the Slender-billed Curlew and confirmed that it was last seen in northern Morocco in 1995. The reasons for its extinction remain poorly understood.
Pterosaurs fossils found in northern Morocco are in the heart of a new discovery. A recent study suggests that these flying reptiles were still going strong during the Cretaceous period, contrary to past discoveries.
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