Fecal analyses and necropsies suggest a fire-footed rope squirrel was the source of a 2023 mpox outbreak among sooty ...

The lions that roamed the plains of northern Botswana were dying. One by one, the big cats were succumbing to poisoned bait ...

Conservationists are raising the plight of the pangolin, a scaly anteater found in parts of Africa and Asia that is the most ...

Seabirds undertake some of the most impressive migrations on Earth, but their remote nature means these journeys can be ...

Young elephants have a lot to learn—what to eat, what to avoid, how to behave around others. When they grow up around their mother and aunts, their development into well-behaved adults may seem ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New fences across ancient routes have blocked wildebeest herds from their annual migration to reach fresh grazing land. Wildebeest ...

New fences across ancient routes have blocked wildebeest herds from their annual migration to reach fresh grazing land. Wildebeest population size is linked to the ability to migrate for food and ...

Africa confronts escalating internal migration and displacement crises fueled by intensifying climate hazards—particularly prolonged droughts—and persistent armed conflicts, which compound ...

Chinese researchers have identified a new species of dicynodont — an extinct group of mammalian species that appeared long before the dinosaurs — challenging past paleontological assumptions about ...

For almost 300,000 years, humans were African. But whereas our previous human cousins had already made their way into Eurasia, our own species was more than 200,000 years confined to the mother ...

Just over 500 years ago, on 3 August 1492, Christopher Columbus, the admiral from Genoa underwritten by Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain, set off on the first of 4 trips across the Atlantic. He ...