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

The San people acted as paleontologists and used fossil finds as a basis for stories and pictures.

South Africa’s Karoo Basin, known for its wealth of well-preserved ... to a group of prehistoric reptiles that lived over 250 ...

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.

Miniature versions of three big lizards have been turned into limited-edition pendants by the artist Jake Chapman and the ...

Mystery creature in South African rock art could be long-extinct species, study finds - Tusked animal depicted in rock art ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has criticised the previous Conservative government as "climate dinosaurs" as he gave his first ...

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Over 260 footprints show where terrestrial dinosaurs were last able to freely walk between Africa and South America millions of years before the two continents split apart. The findings were ...

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly ...

demonstrating how dinosaurs could have crossed between what are now Africa and South America. Parts of these countries’ modern coastlines were once linked by a narrow stretch of ground as the co ...