The Cape Town-born artist has spent decades visiting many of the thousands of ancient rock art sites that dot South Africa, in order to meticulously produce millimeter-accurate copies of humanity ...

But the recent discovery of 200-year-old rock paintings found in South Africa now has scientists hypothesizing that this ancient creature may have been far more than just a legend. The first ...

The rock art depicts an animal that sports two tusks. The two enlarged teeth point downwards, which is unlike any tusk-bearing animal that lives today in Africa. I considered other possibilities ...

In a recent research article, we described what we interpret as a painting of an African rail, found on the walls of a rock shelter in the Western Cape, south of the Langeberg range of mountains.

Rock art found in South Africa, and painted two centuries ago, represents how the San people imagined extinct animals that they found in fossil form. This early rendering of these fossils could relate ...

Artists take inspiration from many sources. For the San people of South Africa, the spark that inspired some of their rock paintings may have come from fossils of creatures that went extinct more than ...

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 mysterious tusked animal ...

In a thought-provoking new paper, evolutionary biologist Julien Benoit argues that the rock paintings of La Belle France in the Free State Province of South Africa are an overlooked form of ...

The painting of the dicynodont made by the San people of South Africa. Credit: Julien Benoit In the rugged landscapes of South Africa, ancient rock art panels created by the San people—one of the ...

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 study published September 18, 2024 in the ...