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 ...

A former South African quarry is opening a window into an important period in the history of life. The discovery of fossilized invertebrates at the site, including what could be the earliest body ...

A unique fossil of an ancient Karoo crocodile was lost to science after the vehicle in which it was being transported, was stolen in Bloemfontein. The fossilised skull part belonged to the National ...

Peripatopsis barnardi represents the first ever species from the little Karoo, which indicates that the area was historically more forested than at present. It is one of seven new species from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A possible painting of the dicynodont made by the San in the early 1800s. Somewhere in the Koesberg Mountains of South Africa, ...

From the iconic Owl House to ancient fossils, art galleries and unforgettable Karoo hospitality, Nieu-Bethesda is one of South Africa's most rewarding weekend getaways.

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

Robert Gastaldo of Colby College holds a skull of Lystrosaurus maccagi, a common Late Permian synapsid tetrapod in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. The specimen is in the collection of the Albany Museum ...