So, they died out long before the San people or any other humans could've seen them. But dicynodont fossils are abundant in the Karoo Basin in south-central Africa. The basin contains the well ...

which might be a now-extinct creature known as a dicynodont. The concept of an ancient horned serpent traversing the lands is both mesmerizing and eerie. Recent fossil finds in the Karoo ...

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 ...

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 ...

Isolated tusk fragments found in Zambia by field teams in 2018. Photo by K. Angielczyk. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert ...