If the artwork is found to truly be of a dicynodont – a species which went extinct before dinosaurs – then the San people’s depiction could predate the first scientific description of the ...

Fossils vary from the size of small rodents, all the up to Lisowicia bojani, a dicynodont species discovered in Poland that rivals modern elephants in size. A cursory glance at a dicynodont skull ...

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 ...

These species, found as fossils in the Chanares Formation, include early mammal relatives (the dicynodont Dinodontosaurus in the left background, and the cynodont Massetognathus in the left ...