Ancient human genomes reconstructed from remains at a southern African rock shelter show remarkable genetic continuity over ...

A puzzling painting dating back 200 years seems to depict an animal that vanished millions of years ago. An unexpected link between art and paleontology might very well rewrite the history ...

Ancient rock paintings discovered in the Amazon have unveiled extinct species a remarkable 2,000 years before their ...

The ancient San culture lived in the South African Karoo, an arid region with ancient rock formations, according to a study ...

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. A mysterious tusked animal ...

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

Not only have rock art, stone tools and ceramic ... There has been less success in Africa, because of the environmental conditions. Ancient DNA isn’t well preserved when average temperatures ...

He says that if the tusked figure is in fact an artistic interpretation of a dicynodont, a species which went extinct before dinosaurs appeared and were long extinct when humans appeared in Africa, it ...

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