The interpretation of a rock painting is causing controversy over the identity of a mystery animal that one academic says depicts a 250-million-year-old tusked herbivore. 

Associate professor Julien Benoit, of Wits University’s Evolutionary Studies Institute, argues that an animal in a rock painting in the Eastern Free State (the Horned Serpent panel) is of a dicynodont and the inspiration is from fossils the San came across. His findings were published in the journal PLOS One...

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