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 ...

When people think about the deadliest animals in Africa, they usually imagine lions chasing their prey, crocodiles hiding beneath the water, or venomous snakes waiting in the grass. But the animal ...

In 1799, southern Africa lost one of its most enigmatic creatures: the Bluebuck. As the first large African land mammal ...

Every puppy and kitten I see is as cute as the last, but I especially love scrolling by animals I don't see as frequently, like horses and their foals. It's even rarer to see exotic animals and their ...

A 23-million-year fossil record shows Africa's giant mammals slowly vanished over time because evolution stopped replacing them.

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 ...

A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa’s Free State Province has long baffled scientists. Is it a walrus? It looks like one, but there are no such animals in Africa. Some ...

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 ...