It's time to celebrate Africa's forgotten fossil hunters
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - 08:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
There are few things more exciting for a professional palaeontologist than discovering fossil remains. In early 2017 I found a beautifully preserved skeleton sticking out of the ground in South Africa's Karoo region. It was the vertebral column of a big herbivorous animal called pareiasaur.