The Horned Serpent Panel, painted by the San people in southern Africa, shows a mysterious creature's tusks in blue at the upper right. Julien Benoit Between 1821 and 1835, the San people of South ...

T he discovery of 200-year-old rock art in South Africa has shed light on the importance of the extinct horned serpent. This unique find predates the first scientific descriptions of dicynodonts.

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 ...

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, ...

The latest example appears to be a Genyornis, a thick-legged, big beaked bird resembling an emu. The big bird became extinct thousands of years ago, along with many other large animals, the so-called ...

More than 45,500 years ago, perched on a ledge at the back of an Indonesian cave, an artist was at work. A painting showing three pigs was discovered in a cave in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in ...

Photo taken on Nov. 12, 2021 shows a view of Helan Mountain, in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Wang Peng) A site of animal rock painting complex has been discovered at Helan ...

At some 17,000 years old, it's the oldest painting yet discovered in Australia, scientists announced. The kangaroo was painted on the sloping ceiling of a rock shelter in the northeastern Kimberley ...