The `firewalkers` of Karoo: Dinosaurs and other animals left tracks in a `land of fire`
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

In southern Africa, dinosaurs and synapsids, a group of animals that includes mammals and their closest fossil relatives, survived in a `land of fire` at the start of an Early Jurassic mass extinction, according to a study published January 29, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Emese M. Bordy of the University of Cape Town and colleagues.