The 260-million-year-old layer is littered with fossils from the Permian period. Once he located the Horned Serpent panel, Dr. Benoit spent a day surveying the vicinity of the rock art and found ...

A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species preserved as fossils in the same region, according to a new study.

Hilmar Krocke has collected rocks, minerals and gems for more than 30 years. On Oct. 5 and 6, 2024, the Port Coquitlam ...

Mystery creature in South African rock art could be long-extinct species, study finds - Tusked animal depicted in rock art ...

Well-preserved fossils reveal that even the most colossal of pterosaurs were capable of flight, and various species had ...

With a prime position on the Jurassic Coast, this Dorset harbour town is well placed for fossil-hunting walks on Chesil Beach ...

But Benoit, who works at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has a different perspective. He says the animal ...

The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western ...

The Horned Serpent Panel from southern Africa predates the first Western scientific description of the dicynodont, a large ...

The San people acted as paleontologists and used fossil finds as a basis for stories and pictures.

African rock art depicting a mythical tusked creature may mirror the look of fossils of real-life ancient mammal relatives called dicynodonts. Abundant, exposed fossils in South Africa’s Karoo ...

Archaeological evidence directly supports that the San did find and transport fossils over long distances, and could ...