Tepfer, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, explores the transformation of elk rock art in the Mongolian Altai ...

The discovery of rock art dated to between 1821 and 1835 adds even more credence to the legend, as the painting is older than the first formal reference to the dicynodont.

A groundbreaking new discovery in the study of a 30,000-year-old vulture fossil, led by University College Cork (UCC) research, has shown that volcanic rock can preserve tiny elements of animal ...

A stunning discovery in the Amazon rainforest! Archaeologists have uncovered a massive 12,500-year-old rock painting in Colombia that depicts both extinct animals and mythical creatures. This ...

Rock art in southern Africa might depict long-extinct animals that walked the Earth 260 million years ago. A new paper argues that we should consider these images a form of Indigenous paleontology ...

In addition, the body of the tusked animal from La Belle France, as painted by the San, is strangely flexed like a banana, a pose that is commonly encountered on fossil skeletons and is called the ...

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 ...

The painting could be interpreted as a seal eating a fish or a land animal eating a snake. But the U-shape is too short for that, Benoit argues, and usually in San rock art, snakes and fish have ...

Zoogoers in China have been left outraged after discovering that the so-called “pandas” they were cooing over were just painted pups.

Julien Benoit receives funding from the DSI-NRF African Origins Platform. A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa’s Free State Province has long baffled scientists. Is it a ...

Analysis - A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa's Free State Province has long baffled scientists. Is it a walrus? It looks like one, but there are no such animals in Africa ...