The San people acted as paleontologists and used fossil finds as a basis for stories and pictures.

Analysis - A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa's Free State Province has long baffled scientists. Is it a walrus? It looks like one, but there are no such animals in Africa.

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

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

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.

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

By Stephen Beech via SWNS A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art may have been inspired by a ...

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

The 1838 score for “Dalinda,” which uses chunks of “Lucrezia Borgia,” was found in Naples in 2019. A student company in Cape ...

Do not leave the vehicle” is the golden rule of African wildlife safari, and yet here we are leaving the vehicle in a great ...

In the rugged landscapes of South Africa, ancient rock art panels created by the San people—one of the region's earliest ...