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

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

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

A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species preserved as fossils in 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 same region, according to a new study.

Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

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