July 30, 2015

Thursday August 6 Presentation: Ten Years of Exploring Angola’s Paleontological Heritage

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Paleontologists at work north of Caxito.

Paleontologists at work north of Caxito. Photo courtesy Projecto PaleoAngola.

Dinosaur footprints in diamond mines… the oldest marine turtle in Africa … a 90 million year old new species of sauropod… These are just some of the discoveries unearthed in Angola in the last decade. The Angola Field Group invites you to Ten Years of Exploring Angola’s Paleontological Heritage at the Viking Club, Thursday, August 6, at 7:45 PM, with palaeontologists Dr. Louis Jacobs of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas and Dr. Octavio Mateus, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Their paleontological fieldwork, which started in May 2005, is carried out annually as part of Projecto PaleoAngola: www.paleoangola.org

Angolatitan, first dinosaur discovered in Angola, 2005. Photo courtesy Projecto PaleoAngola.

Angolatitan, first dinosaur discovered in Angola, 2005. Photo courtesy Projecto PaleoAngola.

The results of the fieldwork in Cretaceous sites in Angola has been extraordinarily spectacular with the discovery of the first dinosaurs of Angola dating from the Early Cretaceous and also the discovery of various reptiles including monosaurs, pleiosaurs, ammonites, and fossilized turtles and whales. Dr. Louis Jacobs is internationally recognized as a dinosaur expert and six fossil species have been named after him. He calls Angola a fossil museum in the ground. Dr. Octavio Mateus, also well known in his field, heads up the  Museu da Lourinha in West Portugal which houses an extensive collection of paleontological specimen.

Angola field group guest presenter Dr. Louis Jacobs.

Angola field group guest presenter Dr. Louis Jacobs. Photo courtesy Projecto PaleoAngola.

Everybody is welcome to attend. In close cooperation with the Viking Club, this event is offered free of charge. The talk will be in English. Beverages and snacks are sold at the Viking Bar which opens at 7:15 PM. Coupons must be purchased. You can download a map showing the location of the Viking Club on our Join Us page. The Viking Club is on the main floor of Edificio Maianga, Rua Marien Nguabi, No 118 in Maianga, across the street from the Panela de Barra restaurant.

For Sale: Photo books, Natural Medicine books and other books about Angola and Huambo Dolls.

 

July 31, 2013

Thursday August 1 Presentation: PaleoAngola Field Expedition 2013

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Evidence of Arsinoitheres, hippo-like mammals, have been discovered in Cabinda

Evidence of Arsinoitheres, hippo-like mammals, have been discovered in Cabinda. Photo courtesy lusodinos.blogspot.ca

Short notice but the team of dinosaur paleontologists just arrived back in Luanda after three weeks searching for fossils from Cabinda to Namibe and from Bengo to Lunda Norte. The Angola Field Group invites you to a presentation to hear all about the PaleoAngola Field Expedition 2013, at the Viking Club, Thursday August 01, at 8:00 PM. Their first expedition was in 2005.  Our presenters are internationally recognized experts in their field and refer to Angola´s abundance of fossils as a ´museum in the ground´. Dr. Jacobs teaches geology and paleontology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, USA. Six fossil species have been named after him. Dr. Octavio Mateus is a paleontology  Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. PaleoAngola partners with  Agostinho Neto University and ISPRA University in Lubango. Visit www.paleoangola.org for more info.

Arsinoitheres tooth unearthed by PaleoAngola team July 2013. Photo courtesy http://lusodinos.blogspot.ca

Arsinoitheres tooth unearthed by PaleoAngola team July 2013. Photo courtesy lusodinos.blogspot.ca

Everybody is welcome to attend our presentations which are offered in close cooperation with the Viking Club. There is no charge. The talk will be in English. Beverages and snacks are sold at the bar. The Viking Bar opens at 7:30 PM! 
If you would like to have a map showing the location of the Viking Club, please click hereto download it from our Join Us page. The Viking Club is on the main floor of the former Swedish Building at Rua Marien N”Guabi, No 118 in Maianga, across the street from the new Panela de Barra restaurant. See you there!

PaleoAngola Team in Angola. Photo courtesy http://lusodinos.blogspot.ca

PaleoAngola Team in Angola. Photo courtesy lusodinos.blogspot.ca

 

November 28, 2011

Saturday, December 3 Field Trip: Guided tour of the University of Agostinho Neto’s Geology Museum

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The Geology Museum now houses this life-size model of the Angolatitan adamastor.

Due to popular demand, this trip is being repeated again on Saturday, December 10th. Sign up before December 6th by emailing: angolafieldgroup@gmail.com
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The Angola Field Group invites you to a guided tour of the University of Agostinho Neto’s Geology Museum, Saturday December 3rd at 10:00 AM, with Geologist Tako Koning.  Come and take a firsthand look at the varied collection of mineral specimens and fossils  including parts of the Angolatitan adamastor, which is Angola’s first dinosaur discovered in 2005 about 70 km north of Luanda.  Today, the Geology Museum houses a life-size model of the Angolatitan based on bones excavated by a team of paleontologists from Southern Methodist University (USA), University of Maastricht (Netherlands), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) and Agostinho Neto University. Other fossils in the museum include Cretaceous-age petrified tree trunks and 1.1 billion year old fossilized algae.

The Department of Geology of Agostinho Neto University has kindly agreed to open the museum for the Field Group’s first ever visit. The museum is at street level, on the Marginal, between the TAP office and the small old Catholic Church, Igreja Nazare. We will meet on the sidewalk in front at 10:00 AM sharp. We will spend about an hour and a half and for those interested, we will then visit the National Museum of Natural History in Kinaxixi, home to the only fully mounted Palanca Negra in Angola.

Children are welcome. No charge for the Geology Museum. We are keeping the group down to 30 attendees so sign up as soon as possible by emailing Henriette: angolafieldgroup@gmail.com

This 13 meter long herbivore lived about 90 million years ago.

 

August 13, 2011

Paleo Angola Project event, Sunday August 14

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Angolatitan adamastor, a new specis of sauropod, is one of the few occurences of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa in the late Cretaceous.

The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, in collaboration with the Vida Foundation and LS Filmes, is honored to invite the Angola Field Group for the presentation of the PALEOANGOLA PROJECT, as well as the first dinosaur to be discovered in Angola, Angolatitan, to be held on Sunday, August 14th, 2011, at 10:00, at the Escola Nacional da Administração (ENAD), Futungo Road, Luanda. Confirmation to Kaluga Lima.

 

Assembling a full scale model of the Angolatitan, Angola's first dinosaur discovered in 2005, 70 km north of Luanda. This 13 meter long herbivore lived about 90 million years ago.

 ***Added on August 23: two articles in Portuguese from the Jornal de Angola newspaper featuring coverage of the events. Click on the image below and it will appear full size on a new browser window.


 

June 23, 2011

Thursday, June 30 Presentation : The Ancient Life of Angola, a Closer Look

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The Dinosaur Hunters are back.  Thursday, June 30th  you are invited to a presentation at 8:00 PM at the Viking Club, “The Ancient Life of Angola, a Closer Look”. Dr. Louis Jacobs, internationally recognized dinosaur expert who presented to the field group in 2009, will update us on the ‘extraordinarily spectacular’ results uncovered during the team’s last years of fieldwork in Angola. Also, Dr. Michael Polcyn, expert on the giant sea lizards, Mosasaurs, will discuss Angola’s marine reptiles. Both paleontologists teach at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, USA. Click here to download a Word document with more project details including plus presenter bios.

The presentation will kick off with a preview of footage of an upcoming film documenting the paleontological expedition which is known as Projecto PaleoAngola. Projecto PaleoAngola is a collaborative international scientific research program focused on exploring the ancient life of Angola but which also aims to work with Angola’s educational system at all levels to train students and create an interest in science. The rich paleontological finds and the tenacious scientists who uncovered them will be featured in an upcoming documentary  written, directed, and produced by Kalunga Lima of LS films, based in Luanda Angola. Click here to download a PDF project presentation of PaleoAngola or visit www.paleolabs.org/paleoangola for more details.

Everybody is welcome to attend our presentations which are offered in close cooperation with the Viking Club. There is no charge. The talk will be in English. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and snacks are sold at the bar. The Viking Bar now opens at 7:30 PM!  (For sale, books by NGOs, in English.)

If you would like to have a map showing the location of the Viking Club, please visit our Join Us page.  The Viking Club is on the main floor of the former Swedish Building at Rua Marien N”Guabi, No 118 in Maianga, across the street from the new Panela de Barra restaurant.

 

July 3, 2009

Thurs July 9 Presentation: Uncovering the Hidden Remains of Angola’s Ancient Giants

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Angolan student, foreground, gets hands-on training from a PaleoAngola project team member.

The Angola Field Group invites you to: Uncovering the Hidden Remains of Angola’s Ancient Giants, a presentation this Thursday, July 09, at 8:00 PM at the Viking Club with dinosaur hunter Dr. Louis Jacobs who calls the fossils of Angola a “museum in the ground”.
Dr. Jacobs (read his bio is at the bottom of this post) and his team first came to Angola in 2005 and again in 2007 to hunt for fossils of giant marine lizards first reported in the 1960’s, but they unearthed much more than that. He will present a review of their finds from the rock outcrops of the coast of Namibe province all the way up to the coast of Cabinda, conducted in cooperation with Agostinho Neto University and ISPRA University in Lubango. Visit www.paleoangola.org/ for more info.

Our guest speaker, vertebrate paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs on a dig along the northern coast of Angola.

Our guest speaker, vertebrate paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs on a dig along the northern coast of Angola.

Dr. Jacobs teaches geology and paleontology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, USA and has conducted fieldwork worldwide. He’s internationally recognized as a dinosaur expert and six fossil species have been named after him. Read more about Dr. Jacobs at the end of this post.
Everybody is welcome to attend our presentations which are offered in close cooperation with the Viking Club. There is no charge. The talk will be in English. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and snacks are sold at the bar. The Viking Bar now opens at 7:30 PM!  (For sale, books by NGOs, in English.)
If you would like to have a map showing the location of the Viking Club, please click here to download it from our Join Us page.  The Viking Club is on the main floor of the former Swedish Building at Rua Marien N”Guabi, No 118 in Maianga, across the street from the new Panela de Barra restaurant. See you there!

Presenter Bio:
Louis L. Jacobs is a Professor in Southern Methodist University’s Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences in Dallas and President of the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at SMU.  He has served as President of the international Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, and in 1999 he was Director ad interim of the Dallas Museum of Natural History.

Louis received his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Arizona in 1977.  Before joining the SMU faculty, he served as head of the Division of Paleontology at the National Museum of Kenya. Mr. Jacobs has conducted extensive field research in Pakistan, Mexico, Kenya, Cameroon, Malawi, Yemen, Israel, and Mozambique, as well as Texas, Alaska, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona and other parts of the United States.  Most recently, his field research is in Angola, Antarctica, and Mongolia.  Supporters of his research include the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Dinosaur Society, the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society, the Dallas Museum of Natural History, the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, and The Saurus Institute.

Among his publications are Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World, Lone Star Dinosaurs, and Cretaceous Airport, as well over one hundred scientific papers and edited volumes.  His book Lone Star Dinosaurs received recognition by joint resolution of the Texas Legislature.  His awards include the Joseph T. Gregory Award of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the Edwin H. Colbert Award of the Dinosaur Society, SMU University Teacher/Scholar of the Year, and the Friends of the Texas Earth Science Teachers Association Award.  Six fossil species have been named after him.

An Angola Field Group member holds a Giant Cretaceous-age fossilized ammonite unearthed along Angolan coast

An Angola Field Group member holds a Giant Cretaceous-age fossilized ammonite unearthed along Angolan coast.