Many herbivore animals face salt shortages because plants vary in sodium. This shortage shapes movement, safety, and survival ...

When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first time I saw a rhino. It was about 20 years ago, and I was on my first ever ...

Africa is home to some of the most diverse and captivating wildlife on Earth. Sweeping savannas, lush wetlands, and rugged deserts provide the backdrop for encounters with animals found nowhere else.

The thunder of a rifle echoes across the Savannah. Antelope scatter as birds of all feathers take to the air. A dull thud ...

Throughout history, numerous animal species have walked the earth. The dinosaurs, for one, are past creatures that we all know were once on our planet but are now gone. Thankfully, too, because have ...

Mammals living in the African savannah are far more afraid of hearing a human voice than a lion’s growl, according to a new study that may lead to better strategies to steer animals away from poachers ...

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Animal images are so common in African art, and their meanings and purposes assumed to be so obvious, that they are taken for granted. Indeed, Animals in African Art is the first major book wholly ...

Indigenous people in southern Africa may have been painting long-extinct creatures from 260 million years ago, even before Western archaeologists described the fossils. In a thought-provoking new ...

Julien Benoit receives funding from the DSI-NRF African Origins Platform. A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa’s Free State Province has long baffled scientists. Is it a walrus?

A Tanzanian lake, Natron, has gained notoriety for its alleged petrifying powers, with photos showing animals preserved like stone sculptures. This phenomenon is actually rapid natural mummification ...

Authorities in South Africa are searching for a tiger that escaped from its enclosure at a private farm near Johannesburg over the weekend, injured a man and left three animals dead. The 39-year-old ...