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World’s first known butt-drag fossil trace was left by a rock hyrax in South Africa 126,000 years ago
The Conversation  |  Oct 05, 2025

Through appreciating the importance of butt-drag impressions, urolites, coprolites and hyraceum, and learning about the environment of rock hyraxes an...

Dinosaur tracks made 140 million years ago found for the first time in South Africa’s Western Cape
The Conversation  |  Mar 15, 2025

These tracks are around 140 million years old, from the very beginning of the Cretaceous period when the African and South American tectonic plates we...

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