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Palaeoanthropology Makes South Africa Proud: Local Fossil Record Sheds New Light on Human Evolution

What Mozambique’s ancient organic-walled microfossils reveal about the Permo-Triassic extinction

A New Fossil Tortoise from Langebaanweg, South Africa

What Do Bone Scans Reveal About a Tiny Jurassic Crocodile from South Africa?

Continuing a Legacy: GENUS Director Professor Jennifer Botha Inducted as RSSAf Fellow

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The prehistoric survivalists who know a thing or two about surviving the next extinction

GENUS • 9 Nov 2022

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TEDxJohannesburg | WWF screening of David Attenborough’s film ‘Life on our Planet’

GENUS • 25 Oct 2022

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TEDxJohannesburgSalon LIFE| Past. Present. Future.

GENUS • 28 Sep 2022

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Research that appears in PNAS provides new dates for Sterkfontein Cave

GENUS • 26 Sep 2022

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Meet the back-vault heroes of Wits’ Earth Sciences

GENUS • 20 Sep 2022

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Rapid growth preceded gigantism in sauropodomorph evolution

GENUS • 19 Sep 2022

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