Rock art, South Africa
Mystery creature in South African rock art could be long-extinct species, study finds
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
South African rock art possibly inspired by long-extinct species, suggests research
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 open-access journal PLOS ONE by Julien Benoit of the University of the Witwatersrand,
Mysterious Rock Art May Depict 'Strange' Animal From 250 Million Years Ago
A mysterious example of Indigenous rock art from South Africa may depict a "strange" animal that lived ... appearing even before the emergence of the first dinosaurs. They belong to the therapsids, a group of "strange" creatures that would eventually ...
South African rock art possibly inspired by long-extinct species
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.
Ancient rock art in South Africa depicts extinct tusked animal
By Stephen Beech via SWNS A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art may have been inspired by a long-extinct creature preserved as fossils in the region. The Horned Serpent panel is a section of rock wall featuring artwork of animals and other cultural elements associated with the local San people,
African Rock Art May Show Extinct Animal That Lived Millions Of Years Before Humans
In the Karoo Basin of South Africa, an unusual tusked beast is painted on a rock wall. Archaeologists have previously pondered whether the artwork depicts a mythical creature from the realm of fantasy,
Dinosaurs travelled between Africa and South America, separated by Atlantic Ocean; scientist discovers footprints
Scientists discovered over 260 dinosaur footprints in Brazil and Cameroon, showing dinosaurs lived in both regions now in ...
A Fossilized Creature May Explain a Puzzling Painting on a Rock Wall
The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western ...
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Matching dinosaur prints were found an ocean apart in Africa and South America
Tens of millions of years ago, South America and Africa were part of the same land mass ... A group of scientists say in ...
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Matching Dinosaur Footprints Found on Opposite Shores of the Atlantic Reveal Ancient Crossing Point in the Cretaceous Period
An international team of researchers, led by Southern Methodist University (SMU) paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs, has ...
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The perplexing puzzle of a ‘Horned Serpent’ cave painting
“The San have occupied South Africa for thousands of years,” says Benoit ... It houses another piece of San rock art, created around 1810, which depicts what are unmistakably dinosaurs: “We know ...
Dinosaurs Assemble for a Capsule Jewelry Collection
Miniature versions of three big lizards have been turned into limited-edition pendants by the artist Jake Chapman and the ...
Diversity of species at Chinese dinosaur fossil site unmatched globally
Fossils of pterosaurs, stegosaurs, plesiosaurs, and more - this dinosaur fossil site in Southwest China's Sichuan Province ...
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New fossil fish species scales up evidence of Earth's evolutionary march
Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...