About Tendaguru

Between 1909 and 1913, the Institute of Geology and Palaentology and the museum of the Berlin University led the German Tendaguru expedition. Thousands of skeletal remains from dinosaurs were recovered from the layer of the Jurassic period at Tendaguru Hill in the former German East Africa (Tanzania). The expedition leaders were Werner Janensch and Edwin Henning (1090-1911), Hans von Staff (1911), and finally Hans Reck and his wife Ina (1912). The spectacular high-point of the field work was the discovery of the giant Brachiosaurus skeleton, one of the largest land animals the world has EVER KNOWN. Dinosaur bones were recovered at more than 100 excavation sites at Tendaguru. The expedition's great success would have been impossible with the efforts of the nearly 500 native assistants. Carrier struggled to bring the heavy load of bones to the port of Lindi over the impervious terrain which took often three of four days. SOURCE: Humboldt Museum of Berlin