Indigenous painting may portray a long extinct creature that appeared before the first dinosaurs, a study found.

If the painting in fact depicts a dicynodont, it would then predate the first formal scientific record of these animals by at ...

But Benoit, who works at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has a different perspective. He says the animal ...

Now, archaeologists theorise that the ancient Scandinavian culture likely used boats made of animal skin for fishing, hunting, travelling, and trading across great distances in open sea waters. These ...

The first inhabitants of southern Africa knew about locally abundant dicynodont fossils and made rock art about them.

Researchers say this 200-year-old South African cave painting likely depicts an animal that has been dead for over 200 ...

Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

Louisville Metro Police Department is investigating after they found what they believe to be a human skull inside a vacant ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of Antarctic dragonfish called a banded dragonfish (Akarotaxis gouldae) and ...

The Salisbury Zoo is mourning the loss of one of its black-handed spider monkeys, Dweasal. Dweasal, age 7, died Wednesday, ...

In the rugged landscapes of South Africa, ancient rock art panels created by the San people—one of the region's earliest ...

Several animal remains found on a roadside in Umkomaas have been causing an eyesore and a stink in the area. It is unknown as ...