African striped mice are used to desert conditions but are showing dehydration as climate change heats up their environment.

The African wild dog is one of Africa’s most endangered predators. African wild dogs are highly elusive, avoiding human contact and utilising vast, remote territories to remain out of sight. Current ...

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Henry W. Setzer, curator at Division of Mammals at the National Museum of Natural History, conceived and directed the project in which more than 40 collectors worked in more than 20 countries across ...

Africa has a huge diversity of large mammals, but their evolutionary relationships and movement across the continent over time often remain a mystery. A new scientific study sheds light on ...

Wildebeest migrations have become a rarer sight in Africa as humans continue to interrupt their historic migratory routes with roads, fences, cities, livestock and farmland. This has led to genetic ...

By Spoorthy Raman Between 2000 and 2023, more than 6,000 African primates were traded internationally in 50 countries, ...

Physical And Temporal Setting: 1. Tectonics and Geomorphology of Africa during the Phanerozoic / Timothy C. Partridge -- 2. Chronology of Paleogene Mammal Localities / Erik R. Seiffert -- 3.

Conservationists and geneticists in South Africa have rediscovered a blind mole species lost to science nearly 90 years ago. The De Winton’s golden mole, known for its iridescent coat and ...

Since their translocation from mainland Africa a couple of millennia ago, wild bushpig (Potamochoerus larvatus) roam freely in Madagascar (Northern humid forest, elevation ~1500m.) In the ongoing ...