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 ...
"Secondly, it is cultural, as the San would have integrated fossils into their belief system, which may shed some light on other mysterious rock art that have eluded explanation so far." ...
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 ...