5+ hour, 42+ min ago   (429+ words) Zimbabwe has added another remarkable chapter to Africa’s prehistoric story with the discovery of a new dinosaur species that roamed the region around 210 million years ago. According to Algoa News, the newly identified dinosaur, Musango matusadonaensis, was unearthed from fossil…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (455+ words) When most people think of prehistoric life, they imagine towering dinosaurs or creatures preserved in stone. Yet some of Earth’s oldest evolutionary lineages never disappeared. They simply kept going. Across southern Africa, travellers can encounter plants and animals whose ancestors…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (797+ words) Dinosaurs may have disappeared millions of years ago, but South Africa remains one of the world’s best places to discover their story. The country is home to some of the earliest dinosaur fossils ever found, ancient footprints preserved in rock…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (391+ words) A remarkable fossil discovery is shedding new light on the giant dinosaurs that once roamed South America. Paleontologists have identified a previously unknown species of titanosaur from two exceptionally well-preserved tail vertebrae unearthed in northern Uruguay more than four decades…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (353+ words) A routine walk along a windswept beach in eastern England turned into an extraordinary encounter with the distant past when an 11-year-old boy stumbled upon a fossilised tooth belonging to an ancient relative of today’s elephants. The upper left molar…...