Julien Benoit, the paper’s author, explains to Popular Science that the painting is thus doubly significant: “First for the ...

But Benoit, who works at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has a different perspective. He says the animal ...

World Rhino Day is celebrated annually on September 22 to raise awareness about the five endangered rhino species: Javan, ...

Between 1821 and 1835, the San people of South Africa painted an exhilarating battle scene on a sandstone cliff called the ...

The painting was created by the San people of southern Africa between 1821 and 1835. Called “the Horned Serpent panel,” the ...

Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

The animal looked a lot like a bighorn sheep from the Rockies, but sheep experts in the provincial wildlife branch say it’s a ...

"The downturned tusks of dicynodonts resemble those of the tusked animal of the Horned Serpent Panel. Archaeological evidence ...

At the Phoenix Zoo and Desert Botanical Garden, complex operations to keep animals and plants safe from climate change may ...

As early as the 1920s, some native mammals of South America, Asia and Africa have been introduced to Texas; now many of them ...

The animal kingdom never fails to astonish us. When we think we've seen it all, animals find new ways to be stranger, mo ...

With its long, ridged horns and muscular build, the giant sable antelope is a majestic sight — and a rare one at that.