A fossilized creature found in a South African roadside quarry 25 years ago finally has an official name. The small, ...

A fossilised creature found in a South African roadside quarry 25 years ago has finally got an official name. The small, segmented, crustacean-like creature, dated to 444 million years ago, can now be ...

In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.

A team of British researchers studying chimpanzees in West Africa said they have documented the primates eating and sharing ...

In today’s fast-changing world, where species are constantly evolving and many are disappearing, it’s fascinating to learn ...

The mating game in the animal kingdom is nothing less than fascinating and somewhat weird. Some species pierce ... Species like African cichlids keep their eggs—and sometimes live babies ...

Strange-looking orange lizards are popping up across Florida. Here’s how they could upend its ecosystems - The species is ...

The Kenya Wildlife Service, or KWS, said the four men were involved in trafficking the ants to markets in Europe and Asia and that the species included messor cephalotes, a distinctive, large and ...

Artificial intelligence has crowned the toughest animal on planet Earth after it was asked to simulate a fight between 256 different species.

Black people, roughly a third of Louisiana's population, account for 80 percent of Angola's inmates - a place named for the African nation tied to its enslaved past. At this maximum-security ...