Fossil tracks paint a picture of South Africa’s ancient coastal landscape: five essential reads

Fossils may look to the untrained eye like an unremarkable set of sandy bones. But those bones can deepen or even rewrite our understanding of ancient history – and South Africa is a fossil treasure trove. Some of the country’s “treasures” have changed our own species’ family tree. These include the 1924 discovery of a juvenile skull dubbed the Taung…

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