A Journey Through Time With a At a notedan extraordinary and
very rare collection of original fossils dating back more than
120 million years are on display. These fossils, a small
selection from the institutes prized collection, date back even
further than the earliest hominids and offer a glimpse at what
came before dinosaurs and how mammals evolved. South African
Fossil Exhibit – The Greatest Fossil Record It is not greatly
known by the general public that South Africa has one of the
richest and oldest fossil records in the world with their
natural rock and fossil resources and collections accounting for
more than two-thirds of the history of our planet. in South
Africa range from 3,800 million years old to the last million
years and have recorded the earliest of life forms (microscopic
single cells that flourished in the oceans) through to the
arrival of shelled and then skeletal creatures. At The, 1 of 8
World Heritage Sites in South Africa, records in the form of
fossils date back 180-300 million years