The horn is also valued in North Africa and the Middle East as an ornamental dagger handle. The white rhino once roamed much of sub-Saharan Africa, but today is under threat due to poaching fueled ...

Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The ...

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The average grain yield in sub-Saharan Africa is about 900 pounds per acre, just one-fifth the average in China.

A new retrospective, laboratory-based observational study provides detailed insights into the causes of fevers of unknown ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The two great leopard population centers, sub-Saharan Africa and the subcontinent of India, are among the most ...

Bush babies, also called galagos, are small, saucer-eyed primates that spend most of their lives in trees. At least 20 species of galago are known, though some experts believe many are yet to be ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.