In a murky river of South Africa, a “large”-headed creature swam through the water — or tried to — but something pulled it toward the surface. Unbeknownst to the scientists, they’d just caught a new ...

Africa is home to some of the world's most powerful and dangerous animals, with many losing their lives to animal attacks and ...

The new species has been known among aquarium hobbyists for years and kept as a pet by “several dedicated hobbyists all over ...

In large adult males, the horns meet in the ... rinderpest—a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash across the continent.

Almost a quarter of freshwater animals, including crabs, crayfish, shrimp, damselfly and fish, are threatened of going ...

Perhaps the most puzzling question Jared Diamond encounters as he investigates animal domestication is: Why were no large mammals ever domesticated in tropical Africa? Africa, south of the Sahara ...

Rangers are monitoring the animals, and authorities plan to ... This may be the largest lion escape South Africa has ever seen, authorities have said. Four or five lions escaped in Mpumalanga ...