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

By The Conversation | Published Mar 14, 2025

Guy Plint, Professor Emeritus, Earth Sciences at Western University and Charles Helm, Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience at the Nelson Mandela University, are familiar with dinosaur tracks from their research in Canada, so they decided to investigate the possibility of tracks in South Africa’s Western Cape.