Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by ...

San myths describe large animals that once inhabited southern Africa before disappearing. If dicynodont fossils influenced painters of the tusked rock art figure, then that portrayal preceded the ...

In the rugged landscapes of South Africa, ancient rock art panels created by the San people—one of the region’s earliest inhabitants—have long intrigued researchers. Among these works is a ...

A 2024 study posits that a mysterious animal found in San rock art is actually a reconstruction of a dicynodont.

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 ...

Nick Brandt’s portraits of African mammals, first published in 2005’s On This Earth: Photographs From East Africa, are astounding for their up-close clarity.But in 2014, the photographer ...