African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience Latest News

Fossil hunters find tracks of animals from about 3 million years ago – a first in South Africa

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:00:00 GMT

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

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:00:00 GMT

First fossil hyena tracks found in South Africa – how expert animal trackers helped

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:00:00 GMT

First fossil pangolin tracks discovered in South Africa

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:00:00 GMT

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

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Fossil science owes a debt to indigenous knowledge: Lesotho missionary’s notes tell the story

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:00:00 GMT

World Heritage Status: A Pinnacle of Palaeoscience

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:00:00 GMT

A Trip to Spain

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 22:00:00 GMT

Recently two ACCP MSc students had the wonderful opportunity to visit the University of Barcelona in Spain. This venture marks the start of amazing new research being conducted at the Palaeoecological Laboratory, based at Nelson Mandela University.

The ACCP and Palaeolab are going International!

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 22:00:00 GMT

Dr Lynne Quick, head of the Palaeolab, together with three of our master's students as well as our postdoctoral candidate, will attend and present at European conferences this July.

Graduation Day!

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 22:00:00 GMT

On 24 April 2023 our very own Dr Charles Helm was awarded his PhD with his thesis titled: “Pleistocene vertebrate trace fossils from the Cape South Coast of South Africa: Inferences and Implications”