Analysis - Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going. Fossilized footprints preserved in rock do the same - they ...

Are you aware of the African animal often known as the unicorn? Today’s NYT Mini Crossword clue, “African mammal with striped legs,” tests your wildlife knowledge to find an elusive animal that hides ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

If passed, the protection will be for three subspecies of the northern giraffe from west, central and East Africa. The ...

The Pueblo Zoo recently reported the death of Batik, a long-horned African Watusi cow who had lived at the zoo for eight ...

Essential New Research from Texas A New research has surfaced detailing the vital role of older animals in maintaining ...

Giraffe populations are declining at such an alarming rate — from habitat loss, poaching, urbanization and climate ...

Newly discovered 1.5-million-year-old footprints reveal how two extinct human species crossed paths within hours of each ...

FOR many years the fossil reptiles found in the Karroo rocks of South Africa have excited great interest because they seem to include the ancestors of mammals, or at least show how some of the ...