Please wait...
About This Project
For palaeontologists, the South African Karoo is legendary, not only for its appealing wilderness, but mostly because of its great fossil discoveries. A 200 million year old skull or skeleton can pop up below every single step you make! Although vertebrate fossils have been known in the Karoo for more than a century, its exploration is far from complete and new species are discovered on almost every expedition. This project aims to explore the oldest terrestrial deposits of the Karoo.
Browse Other Projects on Experiment
Related Projects
Are climate change and pollution threats to coral spawning synchronization?
The preservation of coral reefs relies on their ability to sexually reproduce during an annual spawning...
10,000 years of climate and environmental changes in Jamaica, a biodiverse tropical island
Jamaica is a highly biodiverse island in the Caribbean, but its ecological resources are threatened by climate...
Monitoring carbon sequestration and biological diversity in tropical landscapes altered by human activity
Tropical forests store 20-40% of terrestrial carbon (C) and contain 90% of all tree species. Land-use change...