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Published on November 4th, 2024 | by Hady George
If I asked you to imagine a crocodilian you would no doubt conjure up a semi-aquatic ambush predator covered in scales, scutes, and with a long snout, lined with sharp teeth, capable of delivering bone-breaking bites. [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 5th, 2024 | by Guest Blogger
Langebaanweg is a Mio-Pliocene aged fossil locality on the west coast of South Africa (about 120 Km from Cape Town), that has produced a staggering diversity and abundance of fossil material. In the first part of [&hellip... Read More →
Published on June 30th, 2024 | by Guest Blogger
The first instalment of Brigette Cohen's series on the South African lagerstätte Langebaanweg... Read More →
Published on June 14th, 2024 | by Hady George
The jaws of predatory synapsids fall under three distinct categories but what was each one adapted for... Read More →
Published on March 4th, 2024 | by Guest Blogger
Harrie explores some of the factors enabling sauropod gigantism... Read More →
Published on December 15th, 2023 | by Hady George
How do the brain sizes of modern and ancient mammals measure up... Read More →
Published on February 7th, 2020 | by Guest Blogger
Mongolia’s ancient underbelly had proved so productive that after suspending fieldwork for one year, the Polish returned in 1967 for another three year stint. This was a smaller scale operation, like in 1963, aimed not at [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 24th, 2020 | by Guest Blogger
A few weeks ago I decided to show my 8-year-old daughter one of my favourite movies as a child – the 1988 animated film The Land Before Time. We had a wonderful time meeting Littlefoot (an [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 28th, 2019 | by Guest Blogger
Of the many countries around the world that have seen palaeontologists scouring their strata for fossils, Mongolia is one of the most intriguing and inspiring. Landlocked and sandwiched between its neighbouring geographical behemoths, Russia and China, [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 21st, 2019 | by Guest Blogger
We don’t need a whole lot of fossil material to start to understand the ecosystems of the past. A few teeth can tell us what types of dinosaur roamed the land hundreds of millions of years [&hellip... Read More →
A new species of notosuchian expands our understanding of stem-croc diversity: Epoidesuchus tavaresae
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Langebaanweg Part 2 – Geology and Palaeoecology
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Episode 162: Cerney Wick
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Langebaanweg – A Cenozoic treasure trove in South Africa
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Episode 161: Notosuchians
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