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🌍 Beneath the blazing sun of South Africa’s Karoo, a land older than the dinosaurs, lies a story where science and Indigenous memory intertwine.

For thousands of years, the San people painted scenes of spirit animals and daily life across the Karoo’s sandstone shelters. But one panel, painted before 1835, may be much more than myth.

Known as the Horned Serpent, this mysterious figure has baffled researchers for decades. Now, fresh analysis reveals something extraordinary: the creature’s tusks and skull shape match that of a real fossil — the dicynodont, a bizarre herbivore that roamed the Earth over 250 million years ago.

In this video, you’ll uncover:

How Indigenous art may represent fossil discoveries long before paleontology existed

The role of oral traditions in preserving ancient knowledge of mass extinction

What dicynodonts were and why their bones scatter the Karoo like time capsules

How the Permian extinction shaped the fossils — and perhaps the stories — we see today

Could this be the earliest human depiction of a prehistoric fossil? Join us as we dig into one of the oldest intersections of science, story, and stone.

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