Rock art is widespread across southern Africa and includes a wide range of depictions such as human figures, animals, dots, handprints, and other painted or engraved imagery on rock surfaces. The rock ...

San rock artists may have painted an ancient animal that used to roam southern Africa more than 250 million years ago. The painting in a cave on the La Belle France farm in the Free State province of ...

In the Karoo Basin of South Africa, a striking tusked beast is painted on a rock wall. It has prompted archaeologists to speculate whether the artwork depicts a mythical being or a long-extinct ...

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 Basin ...

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 humans, ...

Indigenous people in southern Africa may have been painting long-extinct creatures from 260 million years ago, even before Western archaeologists described the fossils. In a thought-provoking new ...

The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western approaches to the field. By Jack Tamisiea On a sandstone cliff in South ...

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...

There’s a vibrant scene painted on the overhang of a sandstone cliff in the Koesberg mountains, central South Africa, that’s challenging local traditions of paleontology. Spanning 30-feet in all, it ...