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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

And the best part about it is, I was talking to the Explorers Club about hippos, and I had just said, in this recorded webinar, “They’ve never captured a picture of a pygmy hippo in the wild.” ...

The governor, long seen as a moderate Republican in the manner of Mitt Romney, shocked political observers and Utah voters ...

He identified the cause of a respiratory condition that once killed 10,000 infants annually in the United States and helped ...