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

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

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

A mysterious example of Indigenous rock art from South Africa may depict a "strange" animal ... appearing even before the ...

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

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.

A long-bodied animal with downward-turned tusks, the warm-blooded, lizard-like creature called a dicynodont (two-toothed dog) ...

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