PAST

10/07/2026

📢 Grants available!

PAST is offering grants for **palaeontological research and postgraduate training** 🦴🎓

A great opportunity for emerging researchers working in the origin sciences.

🗓️ Application deadline: **1 August 2026**

Learn more/apply 👇
https://past.org.za

24/06/2026

🎓 Fully funded PhD opportunity at ’s Evolutionary Studies Institute!

🐗🦴 Project focus: South African Plio-Pleistocene suid diversity and its role in reconstructing palaeoecological & palaeoclimatic change.

Part of the PLIODIS project, under Prof Marion Bamford.

Applications accepted until filled.



More info/apply 👇

25/02/2026

GENUS Palaeosciences presents…

🎤🦴 FOSSIL FUELLED COMEDY

Science meets stand-up with SA’s top comedians:
Mojak Lehoko · Eric Jansen · Dave Levinsohn · Chris Forrest
📅 26 February 2026
⏰ 7PM
📍 Delta Cafe, Randburg
🎟 Tickets R190

Tickets (R190) can be purchased here: https://www.quicket.co.za/.../342784-fossil-fueled.../...
Enquiries: [email protected]

Food, drinks & Genus merch available.
Expect sharp wit, deep time, and prehistoric punchlines.

GENUS Palaeosciences

09/01/2026

02/12/2025

Dear palaeo community,

Please take notice of the following 1 year fixed contract positions at : https://limewire.com/d/ywr1j

IApplications close on 5 December 2025 at 4 pm.

20/11/2025

🎬 Big congrats to Fancy Horse Studios &
Karoo Origins - The Fossil Centre
on winning the Lazendorf PaleoArt Prize for Digital Modelling and Animation — the first South African studio to win a global animation prize for bringing a prehistoric Karoo waterhole to life! 🐾🌍

This creative project blends palaeoscience and storytelling, allowing audiences to see how ancient ecosystems once thrived in the Karoo.

Read more 👇
🔗 https://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-11-18-sa-studio-wins-top-animation-prize-for-bringing-prehistoric-karoo-waterhole-to-life/

🔬 🦴

In a groundbreaking fusion of art and science, Fancy Horse Studios has galloped away with the Lazendorf PaleoArt Prize for a stunning digital recreation of a Permian-era waterhole.

17/10/2025

https://igobooks.co.za/product/product-category/untold-history-of-paelontology/?add-to-cart=2645

This book is about the deep-seated knowledge of palaeosciences among Indigenous people of various African countries. It documents striking cases of awareness of fossils by local populations since the dawn of humankind and up until precolonial times, and how fossils were interpreted back then. Some f...

08/10/2025

📚✨ You’re invited!

Join us for the launch of The Untold History & Prehistory of African Indigenous Palaeontology 🦴🇿🇦

✍🏾 Authored by Prof Julien Benoit (ESI), Dr Cameron Penn Clarke (ESI), Dr Charles Helm (NMU)
🎨 Illustrated by Sophie Vrard
🗓️ 14 Oct | ⏰ 11am
📍 Origins Centre, Wits University
🥗 Light lunch included!

RSVP 👉 [email protected]
🔗 Buy the book here: https://igobooks.co.za/product/product-category/untold-history-of-paelontology/

🔬 ✨

01/10/2025

📢 Reminder: Andrea Leenen Memorial All from One™ Research Grant 🌍🦴

Don’t miss your chance to apply!

✅ Pre-application deadline: October 17, 2025
✅ Notification of next stage: Several weeks after the deadline
✅ Full application deadline (if invited): February 2, 2026
✅ Final decisions announced: April 24, 2026

This grant supports Africa-based research on:
🏃🏾‍♀️ Human origins
🏜️ Past climates & ecosystems
🌋 Prehistoric extinctions

Apply here 👉 https://past.org.za/all-from-one-research-grant/

PAST is pleased to announce the fifth call for funding proposals under its Andrea Leenen Memorial All from One Research Grant Programme.