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 ...

The African Grey Parrot is mainly found in West, Central and East Africa, in countries such as Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

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 ...

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

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

The team's research also noted that the type of mosquito population was most predictive for Zika levels over climate ...

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

They can establish feral populations in the wild. As biological invasion experts, we have researched the potential impacts of non-native small mammal species in South Africa's pet trade. Our research ...

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