Durban – In the late winter of 1976, the world famous fossil collector James Kitching was doing a survey near South Africa’s border with Lesotho.
To his surprise he found a tiny clutch of six fossilised eggs along the side of the road at a place known as Rooidraai.
It took five years for skilled palaentologists to remove enough rock matrix from the eggs so that they could be preliminarily identified as the first dinosaur embryos from South Africa and the oldest dinosaur embryos in the world.
Research on dinosaurs has truly blossomed in the 40 years since Kitching’s extraordinary find and a great deal more is now known about the baby dinosaurs in the eggs.
But the exceptional secrets they hold are only now being fully uncovered because of developments in technology.
This month the eggs were flown to Grenoble, a city at the foot of the French Alps, Read more>>>
