The question at the heart of a long-standing paleontological mystery solved Wednesday reads like the premise of a Dan Brown novel: How could a 1800s hermit, fossilized footprints collected in the ...

Archaeologists discovered a rock painting of an animal from at least 200 years ago in South Africa that may match with fossils found in the area. The art depicts a horned serpent that may be a ...

Remains of a new dicynodont species dating back over 250 million years link China and South Africa, suggesting passage of ...

The San people of South Africa painted a battle scene on a sandstone cliff wall between 1821 and 1835. The 200-year-old rock ...

A new study has re-discovered fossil collections from a 19th century hermit that validate 'phantom' fossil footprints collected in the 1950s showing dicynodonts coexisting with dinosaurs. A new study ...

There’s a vibrant scene painted on the overhang of a sandstone cliff in the Koesberg mountains, central South Africa, that’s challenging local traditions of paleontology. Spanning 30-feet in all, it ...

The discovery of a new dicynodont species suggests early land animals moved across Pangaea later and more widely than ...