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

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

In a study published in the journal PLOS ONE, Julien Benoit from the University of the Witwatersrand confirmed that the rock ...

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

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

For the San people of South Africa, the spark that inspired some of their rock paintings may have come from fossils of ...

Indigenous people in southern Africa may have been painting long-extinct creatures from 260 million years ago ... interpreted them and integrated them in their rock art and belief system." The tusked ...

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 ...

Still, finding a 200-year-old South African cave painting that appears to depict one of these long-extinct animals offered that idea significantly more credence. If the painting represents the San ...

Artwork always has a story behind it. Whether you picked up the piece on a memorable trip, the meaning represents something ...