Beneath layers of rock art are drawings of animals SO strange that, for a long time, some anthropologists thought they could only have been imagined. But what if these animals really had existed, after all?

Scientists around the world discover about 18,000 new species every year. Each new organism has not only to be found, but also studied, compared, identified and organized -- that's taxonomy, the science of classifying living things and...

In 1963, in Turkey, a cave painting was discovered that had been drawn around 6200 BC in Catal Hyük in Anatolia. This painting illustrated a town with streets, houses, and a volcano. Would you call this a cave painting or an attempt at...

Follow the story of Marcelino and Maria’s discovery of the Altamira cave paintings in Spain and the later uncovering of the Lascaux Caves in France. Learn how these findings challenged early assumptions about prehistoric art and...

Today Henry meets an old Elephant at a safari park. Elephant teaches Henry about his family tree and that his great, great, great, great Grandfather was a Woolly Mammoth and would have loved to have met him. Henry becomes a Caveman and...

In which John Green considers the historical distance between Rome's Pantheon, the cave paintings at Lascaux, a different community's cave paintings at Chauvet, and the current day. Too often, we think that a hundred years, or a...

The Blue Rider Group in 5 Minutes How: Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc Paved the Way for Modern Art & Were Devastated by World War I

We discuss mankind's beautiful ability to think abstractly while looking at cave paintings.

We discuss mankind's beautiful ability to think abstractly while looking at cave paintings. <br<br/>/>

Rock art at Twyfelfontein, North Western Namibia. National Monument and World Heritage Site

CU Cave paintings of elephants in Cederberg Mountains / Western Cape, South Africa

A woman admires life-sized Barrier Canyon Style pictographs which remain on the vertical wall of sandstone rock after many hundreds perhaps thousands of years in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in southern Utah. The pictographs...

Wildflowers and Native American Newspaper Rock petroglyphs Utah

Stars wheel in the sky above Anasazi pictographs in Sego Canyon, Utah.

A full moon slowly illuminates Native American petroglyphs, Eastern Sierra, California.

Rock art at Twyfelfontein, North Western Namibia. National Monument and World Heritage Site

Pha Taem Cave Paintings. The ancient cave paintings from 3,000 years ago, Pha Taem National Park, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. Panning shot from right to left.

Just outside Canyonlands National Park in Utah, the massive wall of Native American petroglyphs panel known as Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument. The petroglyphs are from the Archaic, Basketmaker, Fremont, and Pueblo cultures who...

A man inspects nearly thousand-year-old rectilinear pecked petroglyphs below the Cramer site, a Native American site in the Apishapa Canyon Colorado located on state land in southeast Colorado near the Comanche National Grasslands.

Rock art at Twyfelfontein, North Western Namibia. National Monument and World Heritage Site

Rock art at Twyfelfontein, North Western Namibia. National Monument and World Heritage Site

Rock art at Twyfelfontein, North Western Namibia. National Monument and World Heritage Site

Rock art at Twyfelfontein, North Western Namibia. National Monument and World Heritage Site

MCU Cave paintings in Tassili mountains, Algeria, Africa