Due to drought, climate change & scarce resources in Kenya, elephants are getting closer to villages in their hunt for food.

A recent study published in Quaternary Research describes the discovery and identification of possible aardvark tracks and ...

Few animals in Africa can stand against a lion and win, let alone an entire pride. However, African buffalo are a rare ...

Kids love animals -- and they love books about animals, too. From dog books to bear books to bunny books and pig books, our list of favorite animal "tails" is full of great picks. Some have funny, ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise.

Unidentified illnesses in northwestern Congo have killed more than 50 people over the past five weeks, nearly half of them ...

Such challenges are common in disease outbreaks in Congo ... jumping from animals to humans in places where people regularly eat wild animals. The number of such outbreaks in Africa has surged by more ...

For animal lovers and adventurers alike ... from savanna grasslands and mountains to rainforests and even deserts. The most common of the three African subspecies is the southern white rhinoceros ...

Such challenges are common in disease outbreaks in ... in places where people regularly eat wild animals. The number of such outbreaks in Africa has surged by more than 60% in the last decade ...

An unknown illness has killed over 50 people in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to doctors in the central African nation and the World Health Organization. The ...