First, dinosaur tracks aged around 140 million years were reported in 2025 on a remote stretch of the coast in South Africa ’s Western Cape province. These were the first to be found in the region ...

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 ...

Footage shows massive swamp bird seemingly dwarfing tourists after landing on boat.

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The fossil's eventful history stretches far back into the past: the original skeleton of the large predatory dinosaur was described by the Munich paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach ...

Site where Camarillasaurus cirugedae was found in the central Spanish province of Teruel. Camarillasaurus was found in the central Spanish province of Teruel. The fossil was originally classified as a ...

Fossils of primitive cousins of T. rex that had short, bulldog snouts and even shorter arms have been discovered by scientists in Morocco. The two new dinosaur species belong to the Abelisauridae, a ...

The first discoveries : Early glimmerings ; William Buckland and Megalosaurus ; Gideon Mantel and Iguanodon ; The Maidstone iguanodon -- Dinosaurs come to life : Richard Owen and the Dinosauria ; The ...