Dicynodontia

They were frightening predators that could destroy anything in their path.

And their favorite food? Dicynodonts.

That name literally means two dog teeth.

Thankfully, if you encountered one, you wouldn't need to be afraid because they might become your lunch.

Yeah, these synapsids were herbivores, and they came in all different sizes.

They could be small like a pet dog or as big as a cow.

Dicynodonts looked like the love child of mammals, reptiles, and birds.

They had the skull of a turtle, the beak of a bird, and even tusks to dig food out of the ground.

It ate plants and was very common in the area when it was alive, but it went extinct over 200 million years ago.

Clearly, as ancient as the Song culture is, they weren't around in the Triassic, so how could they possibly have known about Dicynodonts? The answer is pretty simple.

Dicynodonts were so common that their fossils are regularly found in the Karoo Basin in South Africa.

including well-preserved skulls eroding out of the ground.

The San would have undoubtedly come across these fossils.