Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by ...

The first inhabitants of southern Africa knew about locally abundant dicynodont fossils and made rock art about them.

This member of the dicynodont family has long held a place in San culture, but it was thought to just be a creature of legend ...

Rock art in southern Africa might depict long-extinct animals that walked the Earth 260 million years ago. A new paper argues ...

For the San people of South Africa, the spark that inspired some of their rock paintings may have come from fossils ... are highly diagnostic of dicynodonts," says Benoit. "No other animal has such ...

Researchers have long sought to identify a long-bodied animal depicted in the rock art with downward-turned tusks ... palaeontological interpretation of this painting are not mutually exclusive.” ...

Archaeologists discovered a rock painting of an animal from at least 200 years ago in South Africa that may match with fossils found in the area. The art depicts a horned serpent that may be a now ...

A South African rock painting known as the Horned Serpent panel suggests indigenous people had knowledge of local fossils.

A 200-year-old rock painting in South Africa possibly depicts an extinct tusked animal inspired by dicynodont fossils.

A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species ... Julien Benoit adds: "The painting was made in 1835 at the latest, which means this dicynodont ...

A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species ... Julien Benoit adds, "The painting was made in 1835 at the latest, which means this dicynodont ...