The diversity of rare and amazing wildlife inhabiting the continent of Africa is unparalleled. From arid deserts to dense ...

“How do you reward the countries that alert you of a potential dangerous pathogen with travel bans?” Sikhulile Moyo told NPR. The global reaction to the discovery of the COVID-19 Omicron variant in ...

Scientists have found a population of people in Africa‘s Namib desert that were believed to have disappeared 50 years ago. Anthropologists initially believed that the community disappeared when the ...

Equally rich in wine and natural beauty, Stellenbosch offers extraordinary experiences that cater to both the wine aficionado and the enthusiastic traveler alike. Set in the heart of South Africa's ...

In the early days of November, laboratory technicians at Lancet Laboratories in Pretoria, South Africa, found unusual features in samples they were testing for the coronavirus. Essentially, a gene was ...

Animal migrations have fascinated humans for millennia, from the ‘Great Migration’ of over 1.5 million wildebeest, zebra, and antelope in the Serengeti, to the massing of flamingos in the lakes of the ...

A recent study published in Quaternary Research describes the discovery and identification of possible aardvark tracks and burrow sites in Pleistocene aeolianites on the South African Cape coast.

Paleontologists have found and named Africa’s oldest definitive dinosaur, this week. The Mbiresaurus raathi—described as a long-neck plant-eating dinosaur—was found in northern Zimbabwe, according to ...

The oldest dinosaur ever discovered in Africa is 230 million years old, paleontologists have found. The near-complete skeleton was unearthed over the course of two years by a team of paleontologists ...