Remains of a new dicynodont species dating back over 250 million years link China and South Africa, suggesting passage of ...

African wildlife will not be protected through Western conservation approaches but through the involvement of local communities, says conservationist Margaret Jacobsohn.

"Over the past ten years, the Mara ecosystem has undergone profound changes." Scientists issue warning after observing ...

There's something deep in your bones about the call of the African wild - the roar of the lion, the rustle of leaves, the ...

Slavery ends not when words are purified or systems improved, but when relations are introduced that power cannot absorb – ...

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

It would be easy to envy bats, bears and hedgehogs their seasonal torpor, but research has suggested that humans once ...

Fossils from Denmark suggest ammonites survived the asteroid extinction far longer than believed, raising new questions about ...

Scientists took samples from whale blow, identifying possible disease risks for marine mammals in northern seas.

Sitting in my campsite at Goblin Valley State Park, I saw an antelope ground squirrel standing erect on its back feet, which ...

When so much around the globe is coming apart we need things to ground and reassure us. The reality of lengthening days and ...