Dinosaurs have captured people’s imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by geologist and palaeontologist Gideon Mantell in England. Dinosaur bones have taught us a great deal about these animals from the “age of dinosaurs”,

More proof that dinosaurs roamed the Western Cape comes from fossils found in the area. Cretaceous-age bones have been discovered in the Eastern Cape’s Kirkwood region, and a few have even turned up in the Western Cape – including a theropod tooth correctly identified by a 13-year-old boy!