A 2024 study posits that a mysterious animal found in San rock art is actually a reconstruction of a dicynodont.

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.

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 ...

A 200-year-old rock painting depicts an ancient, horned serpent. The painting seems linked to an ancient myth about large, extinct animals that once roamed southern Africa.

Remarkable 200-Year-Old Rock Painting May Depict a Strange Animal That Went Extinct 250 Million Years Ago The Horned Serpent Panel from southern Africa predates the first Western scientific ...

The painting could be interpreted as a seal eating a fish or a land animal eating a snake. But the U-shape is too short for that, Benoit argues, and usually in San rock art, snakes and fish have ...

The rock art depicts an animal that sports two tusks. The two enlarged teeth point downwards, which is unlike any tusk-bearing animal that lives today in Africa.

In the rugged landscapes of South Africa, ancient rock art panels created by the San people—one of the region’s earliest inhabitants—have long intrigued researchers. Among these works is a ...

The 18th century Indigenous painting may portray a long extinct creature that appeared before the first dinosaurs, a study found.