African Dinosaurs Unearthed by Gerhard Maier, Indiana University Press, £37.95, ISBN 0253342147 Reviewed by Douglas Palmer
ALL dinosaur fans will have heard of Tendaguru in German East Africa (today’s Tanzania) and its famous giant sauropod – Brachiosaurus. Black-and-white photos of the huge skeleton mounted in the Natural History Museum in Berlin have graced popular books on fossils ever since 1937 when it first went on public display.
It was more than 30 years earlier, in 1906, that German mining geologist Benhard Sattler first spotted large bones near Tendaguru. And what most people do not realise is that Berlin’s giant dinosaur was…
