When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first ...

“The frilled or silver nudibranch Leminda millecra is found only on the South and East coast of South Africa and has produced ...

A genus of around 20 burrowing frog species found mostly in South Africa is famous for its members' short limbs, flat, ...

A new species, Breviceps batrachophiliorum, also known as the Boston Rain Frog, has been discovered in South Africa, ...

Environmental Sciences and Management Unit Professor Louis du Preez and herpetologist Vincent Carruthers have developed an ...

For years, critics of South Africa’s captive lion industry have insisted the animals are inbred. New research indicates things are more complicated—though the animals studied aren't inbred ...

WATCHING YOU: Some birds in Africa are said to ‘herd’ cattle (Photo: Getty Images and iStock) As I studied this, I found in indigenous knowledge, no-one actually thinks birds are particularly ...

Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

The Robberg is one of southern Africa’s most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools – which we ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing added protections for seven species of pangolin under the Endangered Species ...

South Africa’s national bird, the distinctive blue crane, has officially been uplisted from near-threatened to vulnerable, ...