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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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What fossil termites can tell us about geochronology and palaeoenvironments

GENUS • 16 Jun 2022

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Introducing the ‘We Dig Fossils Grant’

GENUS • 15 Jun 2022

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The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death

Christine • 2 Jun 2022

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The unexpected and extraordinary role of death in the evolution of life

GENUS • 26 May 2022

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Evidence from South Africa for a protracted end-Permian extinction on land

GENUS • 18 May 2022

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SAJS outstanding article award for 2021 awarded to Prof Emese Bordy

GENUS • 10 May 2022

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