I am standing on a dune looking out to sea. It's 2024, but I'm thinking about a very different time. Hundreds of thousands of ...

A giant anaconda, a vampire hedgehog, a dwarf squirrel, and a tiger cat were among the new species named by science in 2024.

It is hard to obtain figures for how many plants are being poached, but the non-governmental organisation Traffic reports ...

Ever since his first hard-won sightings of African manatees, award-winning marine biologist Aristide Takoukam Kamla has been ...

"I did not expect to find such clear differences in the skull shapes of giraffe – before I started looking more closely, I ...

Local researchers have uncovered a total of 122 pet shops and seven websites selling 24 non-native small mammals in South Africa.

For those looking for the "real" Africa, the world-renowned Kruger National Park is home to an unrivalled diversity of life, ...

The discovery of a close relative of the world's most popular psychedelic fungus suggests magic mushrooms came from Africa ...

Analysis - As the festive season approaches, the demand for pets as holiday gifts tends to spike. People can be drawn to exotic or unique animals, hoping to surprise their loved ones with something ...

The staggering and unexplained deaths of over 300 African elephants in early 2020 — one of the largest mass mortality events ...

Long tormented by great white sharks, now surfers and swimmers in the Cape are being attacked by crazed seals carrying rabies ...

Researchers have uncovered unexpected diversity in the genetic processes that determine the sex of the African clawed frog, a significant discovery in what was already one of the most widely studied ...