
Julien Benoit
Senior Researcher in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
I am a vertebrate palaeontologist and Palaeobiologist with special interest in the study of the evolution of endocranial structures and sense organs in extinct mammals and therapsids (mammal-like reptiles) using X-ray imagery on their fossilized skulls.
Latest articles by Julien Benoit

South African rock art of mystery creature 'strangely flexed like a banana' might be tusked reptile that predated dinosaurs
By Julien Benoit published
Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles.
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