This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The intricate web of cracks and crevices that gives African elephants their distinctive look is, in fact, an essential ...

There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked ... We hypothesise that ‘intermediate’-looking animals are a result of hybridisation, or the adaptation of some ...

It was three times longer than an African elephant. Native to Late Cretaceous North Africa, Spinosaurus exhibited unique ...

Chemical resistance is another area where human influence is clear. The widespread use of pesticides and antibiotics has ...