The educational display tank at the SANParks Thesen Island office is one of the very few facilities in the country authorized ...

Even more remarkably, the rhino’s horn acts like a tailfin—a natural stabilizer that reduces spinning midair. “The great ...

Human-wildlife conflict can take all sorts of forms, but one of the most common is the problem of roads and roadkill. While ...

With a demand for exotic felines on the rise, often driven by social media, endangered and protected populations are under ...

Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.

Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world.

In a groundbreaking find that has left the scientific community buzzing, a team of palaeontologists from South Africa’s prestigious Animal Institution (AI ... are traditionally thought to have gone ...

Not long ago, Uganda used to be home to both the black and northern white species of rhinoceros ... new intake of eight individuals from another African country soon, bringing its population ...

Native to the African savannas, giraffes use their towering height ... Unfortunately, deforestation and hunting have placed many gibbon species in danger of extinction. Tequila splitfin. Image by ...

Many Partula snail species went extinct in French Polynesia after the rosy wolf snail was introduced to the islands to control the giant African land snail population, experts said. Instead of ...