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 ...

Africa is home to some of the most diverse and captivating wildlife on Earth. Sweeping savannas, lush wetlands, and rugged deserts provide the backdrop for encounters with animals found nowhere else.

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 ...

It is not a secret that a lot of animals have faced extinction over the years. In fact, the famed dodo bird is a popular ...

Don't let their homely appearances fool you: these 'Ugly Five' animals are definitely worth a first and second look on your ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rock art in southern Africa might depict long-extinct animals that walked the Earth 260 million years ago. A new paper argues that ...

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 ...

Indigenous people in southern Africa may have been painting long-extinct creatures from 260 million years ago, even before Western archaeologists described the fossils. In a thought-provoking new ...

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 ...

Despite heavy poaching of rhinos, South Africa’s Kruger National Park is still a natural paradise. One of the largest remaining lion populations in Africa lives there. Yet there is something the local ...

There's no doubt that lions are one of the most ferocious predators on the African savanna, but they pose more of a danger to other animals than they do to humans. About 22 people per year are killed ...