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

A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species preserved as fossils in the ...

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.

Patrick Rodgers, galleries director, said this year’s exhibitions will showcase different styles of art that haven’t been as ...

In the wrap-up of “Objects of Wonder,” hundreds of the museum’s most treasured specimens are returning to the collection ...

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

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

For a study published in the journal PLOS ONE, the author investigated the Horned Serpent Panel, a section of rock wall ...