Julien Benoit

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.

Articles by: Julien Benoit

Painting of the dicynodont.

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.

Massospondylus skeleton.

Dinosaur finger bone from Lesotho rock shelter suggests Africans discovered fossils centuries before British did

By Julien Benoit, Cameron Penn-Clarke, Charles Helm published

Africans discovered dinosaur fossils long before the term 'paleontology' existed