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A 13-year-old boy from the Garden Route has put Knysna on the archeaological map by finding the tooth of a dinosaur.
The boy, Ben Ingel, discovered the tooth in a clay stone on a Knysna beach two years ago.
Ingel held onto his finding until experts confirmed it as genuine this week.
The tooth comes from a massive meat-eating dinosaur from the Allosaurus family.
Doctor Robert Gess from the Albany Museum in Grahamstown says the tooth will be further analysed but estimates it to be about 120-million years old.
Ben Ingel holding up his find against a painting in the Albany museum fossil.
The theropod dinosaur tooth
