A large collection of rock art engravings — depicting animals, plants and human figures — in Western Australia has been ...

A mysterious example of Indigenous rock art from South Africa may depict a "strange" animal that lived more than 200 million years ago and went extinct long before the appearance of the first ...

Rock art in southern Africa might depict long-extinct animals that walked the Earth 260 million years ago. A new paper argues that we should consider these images a form of Indigenous paleontology.

These extinct giants are among many animals immortalized in an 8-mile-long (13-kilometer-long) frieze of rock paintings at Serranía de la Lindosa in the Colombian Amazon rainforest – art ...

Deep in the Colombian Amazon, a team of scholars worked with Indigenous elders to interpret a 12-mile-long stretch of ...

Animals are depicted in rock art in more than 100 countries, not just in the famous "painted caves" of Europe. Barbara J. King talks to an archaeologist with a global view of human meaning-making.

Australia's oldest rock painting is of the continent's most iconic animal: a kangaroo. At about 17,000 years old, it's the oldest painting yet discovered in Australia, scientists announced in a ...

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 ...

The painted rocks that were laid out on the south end of the Seabrook Public Works and Animal Control Facility were there just put a smile on people’s faces, said Leah Larson. Larson, a member ...

Rock art and archaeological record reveal humans' complex relationship with Amazonian animals. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 07 / 240725154748.htm ...

A mysterious example of Indigenous rock art from South Africa may depict a "strange" animal that lived more than 200 million years ago and went extinct long before the appearance of the first ...

Giant ground sloths the size of a car, elephantine herbivores and a deerlike animal with an elongated snout are depicted in rock paintings in the Colombian Amazon rainforest, according to a new study.