South African Rock Art Appears to Draw Upon Extinct Creatures
Discover Magazine - Thu 19 Sep 24The San people acted as paleontologists and used fossil finds as a basis for stories and pictures.
A Fossilized Creature May Explain a Puzzling Painting on a Rock Wall
New York Times - Wed 18 Sep 24The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western approaches to the field.
Fossils of an extinct animal may have inspired this cave art drawing
ScienceNews - Wed 18 Sep 24Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.
South African rock art possibly inspired by long-extinct species, suggests research
Phys.org - Wed 18 Sep 24A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species preserved as fossils in the same region, according to a study published September 18, 2024 in the ...
South African rock art possibly inspired by long-extinct species, ScienceDaily - Wed 18 Sep 24Mystery creature in South African rock art could be long-extinct species, study finds
The Independent - Wed 18 Sep 24Tusked animal depicted in rock art doesn’t match any modern species
Archaeologist uncovers painting that may prove the existence of a mythical horned serpent
Daily Mail - Wed 25 Sep 24A 200-year-old rock painting depicts an ancient, horned serpent. The painting seems linked to an ancient myth about large, extinct animals that once roamed southern Africa.
Archaeologists Uncovered a Painting That May Prove the Existence of a Mysterious Creature
Popular Mechanics - Tue 24 Sep 24 Asteroid Set To Be A New Mini-Moon Of Earth, Scientists Discover An Entirely New Blood Group, And Much More This Week, IFLScience - Sat 21 Sep 24Mysterious Rock Art May Depict 'Strange' Animal From 250 Million Years Ago, Newsweek - Wed 18 Sep 24
African Rock Art May Show Extinct Animal That Lived Millions Of Years Before Humans, IFLScience - Wed 18 Sep 24
Historic Spacewalk May Have Broken Space Law, A Population Of Neanderthals Were Isolated For 50,000 Years, And Much More This We, IFLScience - Sat 14 Sep 24
Ancient Rock Art May Depict Extinct Species, Predating Scientific Discovery, Science Blog - Wed 18 Sep 24
Extinct Species May Have Inspired South African Rock Art, Mirage News - Wed 18 Sep 24
How Many Dinosaur Species Roamed Earth? It’s Surprisingly Hard to Know
Scientific American - Tue 24 Sep 24The incompleteness of the fossil record complicates efforts to figure out how life on Earth is faring today
Duck-billed dino with absolutely enormous honker unearthed in Mexico
Livescience - Mon 23 Sep 24The newly named dinosaur is unique to Mexico, and it's helping change scientists' understanding of dinosaur ranges across the Americas. ...
South African rock art of mystery creature 'strangely flexed like a banana' might be tusked reptile that predated dinosaurs
Livescience - Sat 21 Sep 24Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles. ...
Remarkable 200-Year-Old Rock Painting May Depict a Strange Animal That Went Extinct 250 Million Years Ago
Smithsonian Magazine - Fri 20 Sep 24The Horned Serpent Panel from southern Africa predates the first Western scientific description of the dicynodont, a large mammal ancestor with tusks, by at least a decade
South African Rock Art Depicts 260-Million-Year-Old Extinct Animal, Study Suggests
ScienceAlert - Thu 19 Sep 24A creature older than the dinosaurs.
The perplexing puzzle of a ‘Horned Serpent’ cave painting
Popular Science - Wed 18 Sep 24Somewhere in the Koesberg Mountains of South Africa, located deep in the arid Karoo region north-east of Cape Town, there’s an exquisite cave painting of a curious creature. The creature, ...
Five times more marine fish may be at risk of extinction: study
Mongabay.com - Tue 24 Sep 24What’s new: The number of bony marine fish species at risk of extinction could be five times higher than previously estimated by conservation scientists, a recent study suggests. What ...
Biosignatures: Fungus Gnat Entombed In A 40-million-year-old Piece Of Amber
Astrobiology - Fri 20 Sep 24A Danish amber collector’s find upon a wild North Sea shore in the 1960’s has proved to be of great and surprising significance. After having thoroughly examining the roughly 40-million-year-old ...
Forgotten Fossils: Mysterious Tusked Creature Unearthed in Rock Art
SciTechDaily - Sun 22 Sep 24The research compares an 1800s painting of a tusked animal by the San people to local fossils. According to a study recently published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, rock art in South ...
Hidden Neanderthal Lineage Found: “Thorin” Survived 50,000 Years in Isolation
SciTechDaily - Thu 19 Sep 24The discovery of a Neanderthal named Thorin reveals a previously unknown lineage that diverged from other Neanderthals 100,000 years ago and remained isolated. This finding suggests that Neanderthals ...
Strange Tusked Animal in South African Rock Art is Permian Dicynodont, Scientist Claims
Sci.News - Thu 19 Sep 24The Horned Serpent panel at La Belle France in the Free State province of South Africa was painted by the San people at least two hundred years ago. The post Strange Tusked Animal in South ...
Beautifully Preserved Comma Shrimp Fossil Found in Japan
Sci.News - Tue 17 Sep 24Paleontologists have described a new species of fossil comma shrimp based on a well-preserved specimen found in the Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka. The post Beautifully Preserved Comma Shrimp ...
Why Termites Blow Themselves Up: The Fascinating Chemistry of Their Defense Mechanisms
SciTechDaily - Mon 16 Sep 24Neocapritermes taracua termites carry a life-ending enzyme that, when mixed with another compound during attacks, produces a lethal liquid, sacrificing the termite to protect its colony. Older ...