The Horned Serpent Panel from southern Africa predates the first Western scientific description of the dicynodont, a large ...

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

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

If the painting in fact depicts a dicynodont, it would then predate the first formal scientific record of these animals by at ...

But Benoit, who works at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has a different perspective. He says the animal ...

Julien Benoit, the paper’s author, explains to Popular Science that the painting is thus doubly significant: “First for the ...

The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western ...

A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species preserved as fossils in the ...

Layo Bright and Elizabeth Englander use Ridgefield, Connecticut to challenge notions of Asian and African art.

For the San people of South Africa, the spark that inspired some of their rock paintings may have come from fossils of ... Tying dicynodont fossils to both San myths and art shifts the perspective of ...

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.

Students from Snelson-Golden Middle School learned more about Africa, its history and its art with a recent visit to the ...