This tracing of the cave wall shows the 40,000-year-old painting on the far right. The black box shows the area which was used for dating the cave art The earliest known painting of an animal has ...

A painting by British artist George Stubbs is expected to sell for up to £2 million ($2.5 million) in London next week, as it ...

The art appears to show a buffalo being hunted by part-human, part-animal creatures holding spears and possibly ropes. Some researchers think the scene could be the world's oldest-recorded story.

The painting is located deep in the jungle ... The artist even included details of the leg muscles and fur. Beside the animal are two human handprints. Last year, scientists determined that ...

Previously, the oldest known artwork depicting an animal was a 45,000-year-old painting of a pig in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Other rare examples include a painting of a cattle-like ...