The biodiversity across planet earth is hard to wrap our brains around sometimes. One species in North America with a close ...

DNA analysis revealed that Cape leopard cubs have developed unique adaptations to survive in mountainous, food-scarce areas of Africa.

Africa is home to some of the most fascinating wildlife on Earth. After all, there’s a reason you think of the continent when ...

By Jessica Donati DAKAR, May 22 (Reuters) - The call for help came in early May: a cruise ship off Cape Verde was stranded, ...

For more than a decade, a team of intrepid researchers have been exploring the river systems of southern Africa, one paddle ...

South African infectious disease expert Lucille Blumberg was part of a team that identified a hantavirus outbreak on a Dutch ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

Argentine authorities have seized more than 700 marine animals trafficked from Kenya in a major wildlife trafficking bust at ...

HE WAS SHOT IN THE CHEST. HE IS IN STABLE CONDITION. EMOTIONAL MOMENTS AT AN EVENT IN OAK PARK. TODAY, A SACRAMENTO NONPROFIT IS GETTING A NEW HOME. WE ARE RIGHT UNDERNEATH THE UNDERPASS WHERE I ONCE ...

Blue whale sightings off southern Africa suggest the species may slowly be recovering after decades of commercial whaling.

In National Geographic's inaugural edition of the Stones & Bones newsletter, we travel to the far reaches of Argentina to ...

A newly named crocodile species from Ethiopia likely lived alongside Lucy’s species and dominated the wetlands of Hadar more ...