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.

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 ...