Where bones whisper
09 July 2015 - 02:26
A large windowless room in the recesses of Wits University holds many mysteries. They lie on shelves, in drawers and some of them have yet to be noticed. They aredinosaur fossils, millions of years old, which lie in the storage facility of the Evolutionary Studies Institute.This collection of fossils - some date back a quarter of a billion years - is becoming the new dig site that keeps yielding new species.
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