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Welcome to PAST’s news and media centre. This section contains current news together with event updates. We welcome you to browse through the articles and updates below. If you are unable to find the information you are looking for, please contact the PAST offices : Ann Smilkstein on Tel: + 27 (0) 11 717 6668 or +27 (0) 11 717 6689 or by emailing ann@pastafrica.co.za.

Press Release

South African Journal of Science. Dr. Bob Brain

The first animals: ca. 760-million-year-old sponge-likefossils from Namibia.

Please click on the link below to see Bob Brain’s remarkable research on sponges recently published in the South African Journal of Science, and featured by National Geographic on the link below.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/120207-oldest-animals-sponges-earliest-science-evolution/

Scatterlings of Africa's United States visit successfully completed

Scatterlings of Africa's United States visit was successfully completed with many new partnerships established with U.S institutions. PAST is also now able to receive U.S. donations through our partnership with the King Baudouin Foundation.

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