The Friends of the South African Museum is an organisation open to people of all ages who are interested in learning and exploring the natural and social history of our country.
The focus of the Friends is to support and assist in the promotion of the South African Museum and the work it does. At the same time Friends members have the opportunity to participate in interesting activities with the aim of generating interaction between the diverse communities in our society.
With these objectives in mind the Friends arrange monthly lectures with varied and interesting speakers, day outings to places of interest in and around Cape Town and field trips, ranging from two to five days, in the company of scientists: palaeontologists, geologists, archaeologists, ornithologists, entomologists, botanists, astronomers and historians.
The Friends of the South African Museum is a non-profit organisation overseen by a committee of volunteers who are elected by the membership each year.

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

WINTER SPECIAL

WINTER SPECIAL

Tuesday 14 June
Speaker: Dr Roger Smith

Topic: Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in Antarctica



The aim of this project is to find out more about how terrestrial tetrapods managed to survive the End-Permian mass extinction, and flourish in the Antarctic portion of southern Gondwana during the Triassic Period (251-200 Mya). According to the latest continental reconstructions this region was 70-74deg. South, in what the climate modelers reconstruct as a cold temperate zone. Roger will present some geological and fossil evidence that he recently collected from the Central Trans-Antarctic Mountains that tests the accuracy of these models.
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