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Published on August 22nd, 2025 | by Guest Blogger
While we have discussed the importance of Langebaanweg in terms of its geological positioning and history, the thing it is really famous for is the incredible size and diversity of its fossil assemblage. In the last [&hellip... Read More →
Published on August 9th, 2025 | by Hady George
For approximately 450 million years, sharks and their cartilaginous relatives have been a major hallmark of marine life. Withstanding multiple cataclysmic events, most notably those at the end of the Permian and Cretaceous, and maintaining a [&hellip... Read More →
Published on May 14th, 2025 | by Hady George
I don’t need to tell you how awe-inspiring dinosaurs are, but I would like to tell you about how weird they were. There is no shortage of bizarre dinosaurs, from the hotly debated Spinosaurus with a [&hellip... Read More →
Published on March 20th, 2025 | by Hady George
Mammoths, sabre-toothed cats, and giant ground sloths may be among the most iconic animals of the ice age, but the diversity of life during this time in Earth’s history extends well beyond them and includes one [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 20th, 2025 | by Hady George
If there was a Period of Earth’s history that could be called ‘the one with the weird vertebrates’, it would be the Triassic. And if you don’t believe me, I ask you to turn your attention [&hellip... Read More →
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 →
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting 2025
December 3rd | by
Episode 170: Cariocecus bocagei
September 15th | by
Episode 168/169: Grasslands
September 1st | by
Langebaanweg Part 3 – An Animal Archive
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A palaeontologist’s book review of A Secret History of Sharks
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