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.

Fossils of an extinct animal may have inspired this cave art drawing. Roughly 200-year-old African rock art predates the scientific description of dicynodonts ...

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The San were known to have a robust mix of animals belonging to their ‘spirit world,’ but Benoit said that these animals were generally inspired by reality—even if extinct.