Africa boasts up to 25% of Earth’s animal and plant species. This diversity is driven by varied habitats: harsh deserts, vast ...

The first fossils of a duckbilled dinosaur have been discovered in Africa, suggesting that dinosaurs crossed oceans to get there. Researchers discovered the fossils of the new dinosaur, Ajnabia ...

Studies of newly discovered fossils of the predatory dinosaur Camarillasaurus cirugedae from Spain show that the giant bipedal spinosaurids from Africa apparently originated in Europe. An ...

South African National (SAN)Parks has announced that the Kgodumodumo Dinosaur Interpretive Centre at the Golden Gate Highlands National Park in the Free State, the country’s first and best centre to ...

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million years ago, a huge eruption of lava covered much of ...

Explore five South African places where ancient rocks, meteorite impacts, dinosaurs, fossils and human evolution reveal millions of years of history.

A tiny crocodilian, dubbed “duck-croc” thanks to an overhanging top jaw, lived alongside the monstrous super-croc in the rivers of Saharan Africa 110 million years ago. “It wouldn’t have amounted to ...

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