Concerns about the impacts of invasive species is not new; it dates to the 19th century. The term was popularized in Charles Elton's 1958 book "The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants". However ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

They might steal a banana or grab someone’s lunch now and then, but monkeys are far more than just playful creatures from ...

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

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

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

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

The newly-discovered amphibian has been named Breviceps batrachophiliorum, or more commonly, the Boston Rain Frog. This is a ...

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

Blue Crane conservation status moved to “vulnerable” after steep population decline since 2010, with Western Cape’s Overberg ...

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

The CAR, which tracks long-term datasets for terrestrial birds in South Africa, found a sharp decline in blue cranes (Grus ... “The only reason why the species ‘recovered’ was because of conservation ...