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 the San people of South Africa, the spark that inspired some of their rock paintings may have come from fossils of ...

The Horned Serpent Panel from southern Africa predates the first Western scientific description of the dicynodont, a large ...

Rhinos have roamed the earth for over 50 million years with their prehistoric ancestors having lived long before the first ...

Scientists say they have discovered humanity's oldest known drawing on a small fragment of rock in South Africa. The drawing is about 73,000 years old, and shows cross-hatch lines sketched onto ...

Moo Deng, whose name means “bouncy pig” and is also inspired by a beloved pork dish, was chosen through a Facebook poll in ...

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

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.

Animal-assisted therapy might seem new, but its roots go back centuries. Explore the enduring bond between humans and animals ...

The show's last section, Memory, looks at the ways contemporary artists from Africa draw on collective memory to play with, ...

In the next two months, two major global conferences will draw every member of the United Nations to discuss climate related challenges that the world and Africa in particular is grappling with.