WASHINGTON -- Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of an Indonesian cave. The sketch is at least 40,000 years old ...

In addition to the bull, which is about 5 feet (1.5 meters) wide, they dated red- and purple-colored hand stencils and cave paintings of human scenes.

Cave painting from Lascaux, France, showing a bull marked with a sequence of lines JoJan/Wikipedia/CC-BY-4. 0 ...

These are said to show the constellation Taurus as a bull with the Hyades star cluster as the face and, above it, the Pleiades, as well as other stars. Such art also suggests a widespread early ...

The earliest drawings of animals in the French cave of Chauvet have been dated to about 33,500 to 37,000 years ago. Whether new waves of people migrating from Africa brought the skills of figurative ...