Fossils of an extinct animal may have inspired this cave art drawing
Roughly 200-year-old African rock art predates the scientific description of dicynodonts
A long-bodied creature’s downward sloping tusks (blue lines at upper right), painted by southern Africa’s San people in the early 1800s, may have been influenced by fossils from extinct mammal relatives called dicynodonts, a researcher says.
Julien Benoit (CC-BY 4.0)