Scientists have discovered a previously unidentified species of mosquito along the coast of Kenya and Tanzania with potential ...

An expert team of researchers has revealed that the cats most likely moved to Europe after domestication from North Africa.

Researchers looking into the origin of domestic cats have long considered that cats likely accompanied early farmers during ...

Keepers have revealed the sex of four lion cubs born at a zoo in January. The northern African lions, now aged 12 weeks, ...

A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old ... a band of silts and clays at a location 250 miles north of Cape Town in South Africa. These strata were laid down on the seafloor over 440 ...

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

Scientists found a “pygmy” creature with “leaf”-like toes in rocky a crevice of South Africa and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Courtney Hundermark via Conradie ...

Ancient DNA from the Takarkori rock shelter has revealed an isolated group of humans who lived for tens of thousands of years in northern Africa. While their relatives spread around the world and ...

One of the UK's biggest habitats to be created, the Heart of Africa zone is home to 57 species including giraffe, zebra, antelope and ostrich. Critically endangered vultures, a colony of naked ...