Give me a Horseshoe Crab any day

I get it — they are warm, furry, companionable, loyal and full of character, and if left to their own devices, completely out of control. They will sit

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The Red Headed Step Child

It was Steve Brusatte, in his book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, who said something to the effect that those who study invertebrate palaeontology were the

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The Great Dying – The Mother of all Extinctions

Gorgonopsian from the Karoo Last week I was in Graaf Reinet. It was a last-minute decision – with some family responsibilities to attend to down at Kenton on

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Triceratops – the Three Horned Titan of the Cretaceous

Triceratops Specimen at the Houston Museum of Natural Science ​Get ready, Bone Diggers — today's dino is an absolute LEGEND. Meet Triceratops: one of the most recognisable, most

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100 Years on Earth – Sir David Attenborough

ONE HUNDRED YEARS ON EARTH A Celebration from DinoZone & the Bone Diggers Club ​A Celebration from DinoZone & the Bone Diggers' Club ​Today, 8 May 2026, Sir

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The Map that Changed the World

I read The Map that Changed the World some time back. And then an engineer friend of mine lent me his copy. And so I re-read this wonderful

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Of Deserts and Dinosaurs

The Elliot and Clarens Formations are inordinately rich in dinosaur fossils, preserving a variety of species from the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic Periods, around 210 to 190

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Visiting our Ancestors

“Primitive therapsids are present as fossils in certain Middle Permian deposits; later forms are known from every continent except Australia but are commonest in the Late Permian and

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Time and Time Again

Geologists glibly rattle off names like Precambrian, Ordovician, Jurassic and Cretaceous. You will know about the Jurassic thanks to all of those dinosaur movies that have been rolling

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The Dinosaur Renaissance

The Dinosaur Renaissance was driven by a series of remarkable discoveries that offered fresh insights into the lives of these prehistoric giants. Watch the video, or read the

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