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1 CR2P, CNRS/MNHN/Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France 2 IMAG, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France Study of past biological crises is now a timely ...

Paleontologists have revealed what may be the earliest known saber-toothed animal to have ever lived—a predator that roamed our planet before the age of the dinosaurs. In a study published in the ...

In most popular science books and biology textbooks, you can find the claim that mammals—including us humans—descended from reptiles. This misconception has even taken root in the minds of the most ...

A composite picture shows the rock art painting of an ancient Dicynodont, alongside a fossil of the species and an artist impression of the rock art. Credit: Wits University San rock paintings in ...

Mammals are only the living representatives of an incredibly diverse group known as Synapsida whose history goes back over 310 million years. Given the depth of this evolutionary history, it is ...

Painting of the dicynodont made by the San in the early 1800s. Credit: Julien Benoit, CC-BY 4.0 The research compares an 1800s painting of a tusked animal by the San people to local fossils. According ...

The 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. It pictures, among many other elements, a tusked ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Somewhere in the Koesberg Mountains of South Africa, located deep ...

African rock art depicting a mythical tusked creature may mirror the look of fossils of real-life ancient mammal relatives called dicynodonts. Abundant, exposed fossils in South Africa’s Karoo Basin ...