A tiny theropod, Shuvuuia, the name of which derives from the Mongolian word for bird, is part of a group known as the alvarezsaurus, had both extraordinary hearing and night vision.
It has displays covering art, history, dinosaurs, nuclear energy, craftwork and music as well as live animals, for it is also a zoo
After years of data processing at the Wits laboratory, one evolutionary scientist has constructed a 3D model of a baby Massospondylus
After stumbling on mention of tracks in a dissertation from the 1960s, scientists are shedding new light on the dinosaurs that hotfooted it through SA’s prehistoric past
Funds from the NLC contributed towards the design and construction of of museum and visitors centre and the creation of many visitor experiences
You’d be forgiven for thinking that T rex was all bad. And Hollywood doesn’t help their image.
Volcanos and an asteroid released sulphates and carbon, which caused temperature change.
While warm-blooded animals could adapt to changing temperatures because they regulate their own temperature, cold-blooded dinosaurs could not.
Scientists have been cracking the secrets of eggs laid by dinosaurs in the Free State 200-million years ago.
Hatched 200 million years ago, studied for over 40 years across several continents, James Kitching’s discoveries are yielding scientific dividends.
Scientists turned to digital modelling to study the Dreadnoughtus dinosaur and have finally defined where our galaxy is in the universe.
A Capetonian is among the team that has discovered a 125-million-year-old microraptor in China that sheds more light on how dinosaurs ruled the sky.
Paleontologists have uncovered over 28 fossilised bones of a Europasaurus, a dinosaur named in honour of Europe, found in the Harz region of Germany.
Researchers are studying a new field of fossilised dinosaur tracks discovered in Arkansas, including those of a large three-toed predator.
Fossil hunters have named a 300m-year-old amphibian in honour of FedEx, after unearthing the creature on land owned by the company.
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/ 13 November 2009
Scientists have unearthed a new species called Aardonyx on a farm in the Free State, writes Christina Scott.
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/ 11 November 2009
Scientists at the University of the Witwatersrand on Wednesday announced the discovery of a new species of dinosaur.
United States archaeologists have discovered the largest known burial ground of the Stone Age in the Sahara Desert, in Niger.