#Catfish
In a field dominated by men, and especially in a conservative country like Egypt, 26-year-old Sanaa El Sayed led a team of paleontologists to study a fossilised two-meter-long catfish that lived roughly 37 million years ago. The fossil catfish has been named Qarmoutus Hitanensis. The study, published on March 1 in PLOS ONE, indicates how the discovery gives insights into the evolution of the catfish aquatic group. El Sayed’s study is also the first of its kind for being led by an…