Under the warm waters off Tanzania's Mafia Island, marine scientist Asha Mgeni hovers above a coral reef she has studied for years. Small fish dart through the currents. To most divers, the reef ...

The proteins extracted from these teeth hint at which of our prehistoric relatives were getting it on with one another.

In the central Sahara, where sandstone ridges bake under temperatures that can top 120°F, a University of Chicago team led by ...

Micheline Nzonzi cradled a small and sleepy bonobo, an orphan whose life she will try to save over the next three years or so.

The United States-Israel war on Iran has disrupted global supplies of energy, fertilisers, medicines and even helium, ...

Colombia is planning to cull a population of wild hippos, the offspring of the drug lord’s pets, dividing a town where hippos ...

South Africa's southwestern coast supports globally significant populations of whales as well as increasingly busy shipping ...

Widespread, adaptable, and classified globally as a species of “least concern” on the IUCN Red List, the mainland leopard cat can be found across much of Asia. However, research on the species remains ...

Each year in May, World Migratory Bird Day draws attention to the billions of birds that migrate long distances with the ...

In a typical spawning sequence, the female lays eggs and quickly takes them into her mouth. Males then present the egg spots ...

Donkeys have become the target of a lucrative billion-shilling black market driven largely by demand for ejiao ...