Used with
permission of Maiken Naylor, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA,
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel/exhibits/stamps
Dinosaurs have been extinct for the last 60-odd million years, but they are now all the rage in movies, books, toys, and also on stamps, as more and more fossils are uncovered. Many countries have issued stamps featuring skeletons, or startling "true-to-life" artists' renditions to satisfy the popular interest. These Lesotho stamps retain some of the mystery surrounding these large beasts and their sudden demise, perhaps from a earth-meteor collision that caused catastrophic climatic changes and plunged our world into temporary darkness. Plateosaurus was a genus of moderate-sized chiefly bipedal Triassic (150 million years ago) saurischian dinosaurs whose fossilized footprints can be found in Lesotho, Africa.