This artwork intriguingly depicts a horned serpent, which might be a now-extinct creature known as a dicynodont. The concept of an ancient horned serpent traversing the lands is both ...

But dicynodont fossils are abundant in the Karoo Basin in south-central Africa. The basin contains the well-preserved fossils of many species. Since the San people were known to include features ...

A work of cave art by the San people of South Africa, estimated to have been painted in the early 19th century, appears to depict a dicynodont at least a decade before Owen discovered the creature ...