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.

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.

The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western ...

A strange tusked creature depicted by indigenous people in South African rock art appears to be a long-extinct species ...

Julien Benoit, the paper’s author, explains to Popular Science that the painting is thus doubly significant: “First for the ...

Rsearch fellow Laura Cinti talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about her quest to find a female version of the ...

Fossils of pterosaurs, stegosaurs, plesiosaurs, and more - this dinosaur fossil site in Southwest China's Sichuan Province ...

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

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

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...

Glaude, Jr., a professor of African American studies at Princeton University through ... A Life Reimagined' Documentary Set ...