Tendaguru, home of the Brachiosaurus

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Villagers at a public gathering in Tendaguru Paleontological Site, Tanzania. PHOTO | UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM

In the early 1900s, German pharmacist and mining engineer Bernhard Wilhelm Sattler, on his way to a mine south of the Mbwemkuru River at Tendaguru hill in Lindi, Tanzania’s southern coast, noticed enormous bones sprouting out of the base of a hill.

That was when Tanzania was under German colonial rule.