Between 1821 and 1835, the San people of South Africa painted an exhilarating battle scene on a sandstone cliff called the Horned Serpent panel. Among the depicted warriors, spears and recognizable animals is a mysterious addition: a tusked creature with a long,

In the Karoo Basin of South Africa, an unusual tusked beast is painted on a rock wall. Archaeologists have previously pondered whether the artwork depicts a mythical creature from the realm of fantasy,

Indigenous people in southern Africa may have been painting long-extinct creatures from 260 million years ago, even before Western archaeologists described the fossils. In a thought-provoking new paper,