African lions are being poached in large numbers across Africa. If this does not stop soon, the continent may lose its big ...

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When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first time I saw a rhino. It was about 20 years ago, and I was on my first ever ...

Since the 19th century, the “Big Five safari” was considered the pursuit of excellence, in search of the largest (and potentially most dangerous) animals in Africa: lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants, ...

From their home in Contra Costa County, Peter and Corie Knights have made it their mission to help animals. What makes it unusual is those animals live more than 8,000 miles away. The Knights founded ...

Throughout history, numerous animal species have walked the earth. The dinosaurs, for one, are past creatures that we all know were once on our planet but are now gone. Thankfully, too, because have ...

It often starts with swollen lymph nodes and weight loss before robbing the sufferer of sleep, energy and mobility. Transmitted by tsetse flies, sleeping sickness is one of Africa’s most feared ...

Animal images are so common in African art, and their meanings and purposes assumed to be so obvious, that they are taken for granted. Indeed, Animals in African Art is the first major book wholly ...

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

USDA announced major partnerships at the Africa Food Systems Forum in Tanzania last week focusing on plant and animal health. USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will work closely with ...