Prehistoric Archive
Early Dinosaur in Africa
Posted by jimheck in Prehistoric, South Africa on October 8, 2012
One of the first dinosaurs to roam earth lived in southern Africa and the discovery announced last week raises considerably Africa’s evolutionary importance. It’s common knowledge that man and his broader family of primates arose in Africa, but until now it was thought that the myriad of the earliest land life forms – particularly reptiles [...]
AFRICA, Show us The Way!
Posted by jimheck in Culture, Early Man, Prehistoric, Uncategorized on December 9, 2010
In this age of belt tightening and budget angst the impoverished State of Kentucky is going to give $37½ million dollars to a wacko anti-science group to build a creationism theme park. Sub-Saharan Africa is the cradle of mankind. The earliest known hominid, our direct evolutionary ancestor, is at least 6 million years old. Olduvai [...]
Spielberg, the paleoWhatever!
Posted by jimheck in African Films, Prehistoric on July 1, 2010
I was hired by Dreamworks’ ad agency to help promote the first Madagascar. The original screenplay had lemurs living in Kenya! Well, we got that one corrected, but guess what?!! Original lemurs may have come from Kenya! Spielberg’s amazing. Madagascar’s biomass is more unique than any other area in the world, except Australia which is [...]