Rock art located in present-day South Africa might be the key to discovering an extinct animal species from more than 200 million years ago, according to a recent study published in Plos One journal.

The painting was made, at the latest, in 1835, which is when the San left the area. But it could be much older as the San have inhabited the area for thousands of years.

Cave 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. When you purchase through links on our ...

While the cave art paint has faded, this is what the mythical creature painted on a rock-shelter wall in South Africa looked like. J. Benoit/PLOS ONE 2024 This black-and-white drawing reconstructs ...

The paintings portray what appear to be female archers and deer and goats, some of which are wounded by arrows, according to 20 Minutos, a Spanish newspaper. The artwork is believed to be around ...

The paintings are older than Europe’s famed cave art such as Lascaux in France, and, while younger than some geometric abstract art found in South Africa, it’s the oldest of a narrative scene ...