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 ...

Archaeology & History Does This Ancient Rock Art Depict an Extinct Animal? The painting by indigenous San people suggests they had knowledge about local fossils, says a new study.

Remarkable 200-Year-Old Rock Painting May Depict a Strange Animal That Went Extinct 250 Million Years Ago The Horned Serpent Panel from southern Africa predates the first Western scientific ...

Archaeologists discovered a rock painting of an animal from at least 200 years ago in South Africa that may match with fossils found in the area. The art depicts a horned serpent that may be a now ...

Animals, including an aardvark and scores of antelope, fringe the fracas. This dramatic rock art, known as the Horned Serpent panel, is estimated to be more than 200 years old.

Mystery creature in South African rock art could be long-extinct species, study finds. Tusked animal depicted in rock art doesn’t match any modern species ...

Rock art explored by archaeologists in the Colombian Amazon has provided an insight into the complex relationship between the earliest settlers on the continent and the animals they encountered.

The painted rocks that were laid out on the south end of the Seabrook Public Works and Animal Control Facility were there just put a smile on people’s faces, said Leah Larson. Larson, a member ...

Helm et al. / Rock Art Research, 2024. ... Previously, the oldest known artwork depicting an animal was a 45,000-year-old painting of a pig in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

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 ...

A 200-year-old cave painting by the San people of South Africa shows a tusked, spotted animal with an elongated body, possibly inspired by nearby fossils of the long-extinct dicynodont.