The hallmarks of sexual selection can be found in some animals long after they have died. Researchers using the Natural History Museum's collection found that wildebeest skulls showed signs of ...

Conservation geneticists are concerned that while it managed to survive hunters and disease in the 19th century, the black wildebeest will be hybridised out of existence by its burlier cousin, the ...

Wildebeest – large African antelopes with distinctively curved horns – are famous for their great migrations on the grasslands of eastern and southern Africa. One hundred and fifty years ago, they ...