Dinosaur tracks, made 140 million years ago, have been found for the first time in South Africa’s Western Cape

By Guy Plint, Professor Emeritus, Earth Sciences, Western University
Charles Helm, Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University

Dinosaurs have captured people’s imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by geologist and palaeontologist Gideon Mantell in England.

Dinosaur bones have taught us a great deal about these animals from the “age of dinosaurs”, the Mesozoic Era, which stretched from approximately 252 million years ago to 65 million years ago.…

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