The Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of Witwatersrand. We investigate all aspects of the evolution of life on earth.
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7 Apr 2020
Congratulations to @MarcVanDenBran1 on his PhD! Well earned and we hope you are celebrating!!
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6 Mar 2020
Reminder on this #FossilFriday that we are giving away a Taung Child cast!
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6 Mar 2020
Something from our collections for #fossilfriday identified as Labisosaurus, a reptile from the permian
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5 Mar 2020
Enormous Crocodylomorph from the CIP-Colombia is now posted on Mostly Mammoths blog. Read it here mostlymammoths.wordpress.com… @mcgillu @RedpathMuseum @Centropaleo @diapophysis
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6 Mar 2020
Well done to @katpalaeo for submitting her PhD dissertation on the Early Jurassic crocs of Southern Africa!
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6 Mar 2020
Many congratulations to @katpalaeo of @ESI_FossilLab for submitting her PhD today - go Kathleen! 🐊🐊🐊
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24 Jan 2020
Fresh off the press! New publication out on phytosaurs found in Zimbabwe! The age of the Tashinga Formation (Karoo Supergroup) in the Mid-Zambez... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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2 Aug 2019
A few days @Iziko_Museums looking and look at who I find for #fossilfriday holding just a bit of a titanosuchid! instagram.com/p/B0qOdEgJq7p/…
2 Jul 2019
Prof Ron Clark unveiling Little Foot to an excited crowd in Oxford on Monday #littlefoot #paleoanthropologyhumanorigins #oxford instagram.com/p/BzatQmUp65p/…
22 Mar 2019
#FossilFriday one of our students Kathleen is at @NHMdinolab and took a pic of Sophie. We have a relative of Sophie in South Africa, Paranthodon which was found in 1840s from a locality called Iguanodon hoek, how sweet!
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Call for Nominations of Young Scientists as Members of the South African Young Academy of Science 2019. We are requesting for nominations of outstanding young scientists @UniMpumalanga @iThemba_LABS @CSIR @NRF_News @HSRCza @Univenofficial @FreeStateU @theNWU
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10 Mar 2019
SciFest 2019 6-12 March in Makhanda/Grahamstown, South Africa. From Dinosaurs to Dust. Impressive display by @ESI_FossilLab @CoE_Palaeo @Albany_Museum
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11 Mar 2019
If you can, please help Bruce Rubidge @CoE_Palaeo & Michael Day @NHM_London with their kickstarter to fund important fieldwork that is unravelling the effects of the end-Guadalupian extinction in the Karoo 🇿🇦🏜 experiment.com/projects/pala…
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9 Mar 2019
Our paper on the stratigraphy of the Vulcandon type locality by @Piazoic @ESI_FossilLab, me and others has received the AE Phaup Award for best contribution to Zimbabwean geology in 2018. Many thanks to the Geol Soc of Zimbabwe and go team! #nhmdino
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10 Mar 2019
SciFest 2019 6-12 March in Makhanda/Grahamstown, South Africa. From Dinosaurs to Dust. Impressive display by @ESI_FossilLab @CoE_Palaeo @Albany_Museum
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12 Mar 2019
Outreach knows no bounds. Sandiso and his peers from geology headed out to rural Limpopo to Madithame Secondary School to teach about career options in paleo. #outreach #STEM #empowerement
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14 Jan 2019
Our first quarter #2019 grant applications close on 01 Feb. Apply to 5 research programmes including student support at #AfricanUniversities, young African scientist development and #OriginSciences publication and conference support. #AfricanLeadership past.org.za
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18 Jan 2019
I'm giving an @NatureLive talk @NHM_London on our recent #dinosaur fieldwork in Zimbabwe, that we did in collaboration with @ESI_FossilLab. Come along and hear about what we got up to! nhm.ac.uk/events/discovering…
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24 Dec 2018
We wish everyone a merry christmas and an awesome new years! We have has such an exciting 2018 and we cannot wait for 2019!
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