Today, the term “Big Five” refers to the beauty and power of some of Africa’s most iconic animals. However, it has a much ...

The savanna (sometimes mistakenly spelled as "Savannah," which is in the state of Georgia) describes an African region with grasslands and minimal tree densities. This wide-open landscape becomes a ...

For more than a decade many researchers have compared the DNA of giraffes from all parts of Africa. These studies have ...

Horns can help distinguish age and sex ... rinderpest—a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash across the continent.

Rhino horns are poached for use around the world in traditional medicines or as status symbols, so South African scientists are implanting radioactive material in the animals' horns to make them ...

This brings significant safety concerns, as Africa is home to numerous powerful animals, and close interactions ... attacks with their massive, curved horns, injure many and kill around 200 ...

Of all the large African mammals that wildlife ... because of that neck and those horns. People had told me about dangerous animals like lions, but nobody had ever told me about the giraffe.

SINGAPORE — A South African man who was caught at Changi Airport while trying to transport 34.7kg of rhinoceros horns to Laos was sentenced to two years' jail on Friday (Jan 26). Gumede ...

South Africa is home to most of the world’s remaining rhinos. Of the five species of the animal, only two—the white rhino and the greater one-horned rhino —are not critically endangered.