Digging the Dinosaurs of South Africa

Dinosaur fossils are mostly known from the United States and Europe, but the under-studied dinosaurs of South Africa are ready to steal the spotlight. Join Museum paleontologists on an expedition to dig up sauropod, theropod and mammal fossils-even the fossils of extinct relatives of crocodiles, known as pseudosuchians.
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In 2023, Museum Macaulay Curator Roger Benson, Curator Meng Jin, and colleagues traveled to the village of Qhemegha, where the fossils of dinosaurs, mammals, and other extinct animals emerge from the hillsides. But more than just describing new species, these scientists are digging to find answers to why dinosaurs survived a mass extinction 200 million years ago-and why other reptiles did not survive to see the Jurassic. Watch to learn more.
The Constantine S. Niarchos Expedition featured here was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
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[@KOurboi]

As a South African I see this as an absolute win

[@bakutie]

heck yeah

[@laetitiavisagie-gg6kk]

It is awesome that the community is so much part of this excavation and that they recognize the importance of it. I am sure some future scientists are going to come from this community ❤

[@AnthonyWylde]

Oh wow!! This is fantastic

[@alisn.7998]

Excellent videos. Fascinating to see the expansion of knowledge. What’s around the corner, I wonder?

[@dannyarcher6370]

Impressed with Jonah's pronunciation of indigenous names.

[@stephanerasmus6732]

Very cool! Keep up the great work :)

[@AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory]

Thanks! Will do! Thanks for watching

[@IndriidaeNT]

I get it! This video is explaining information on the Triassic-Jurassic Extinction Event and how that extinction event and the breakup of Panegea into Gondowa and Laurasia is what caused the extinction of many mammal-like reptiles, all the orthocones and crocodile-line archosaurs although the small dinosaurs survived and would evolve into the giant theropods, sauropods and ornithischians of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods while some mammal-like reptiles would survive and evolve into the first true mammals, and the pterosaurs, marine reptiles, ammonites and sharks would reign supreme too for the rest of the Mesozoic Era. My high school twelfth grade class in Paleontology is actually alongside myself learning about mass extinction events right now.

[@PkSage89]

Haunts my mind if they weren't rendered extinct what the world would of been like today.

[@AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory]

They didn’t all go extinct though- there are dinosaurs all around us! 🦉🐓🦅

[@umairaftab9281]

Keep it up, thanks for providing dino dopamine...

[@YECBIB]

No such thing as millions of years ago. ✝️

[@bakutie]

all logic states otherwise

[@YECBIB]

@@bakutie What logic, whackadoodle?🤦🏻‍♂️✝️✝️

[@The_ABG]

​@YECBIB I'm sorry that you were brainwashed into your nonsensical beliefs. Maybe engage with the evidence all around you rather than clinging to some bronze age writings as if they are literal truth.

[@YECBIB]

@@The_ABG You're just pure SpongeBob 🤢🤡