The drawing of the ancient animal was found on a rock wall at the La Belle France site and represented an animal that was not ...

If the cave art painting really captures a dicynodont, it predates formal paleontology. They've been extinct for about 250 million years.

Benoit first saw a painting by the San people of a creature that appeared semi-mythical in a book dating to the 1910s. Benoit tracked down the farm in South Africa where it was described — the same ...

Ancient San rock art in a cave on the La Belle France farm in the Free State province of South Africa reveals earliest known depiction of extinct Dicynodont. view more .

San rock art, depicting animals, humans, and sometimes hybrids of the two, dates back up to 10,000 years. CNN. The artworks are thought to often reflect culturally significant motifs, according to ...

San myths describe large animals that once inhabited southern Africa before disappearing. If dicynodont fossils influenced painters of the tusked rock art figure, then that portrayal preceded the ...

A 200-year-old cave painting by the San people of South Africa shows a tusked, spotted animal with an elongated body, possibly inspired by nearby fossils of the long-extinct dicynodont.

For more on animal depictions in San rock art, go to "Tracking Ancient Animals." Painting of dicynodont made by the San in the early 1800s. ... Hunting for the Lost Temple of Artemis ...