A new spider species from among the harsh dry lands of southern Morocco has amazed the scientific world with its face, a ...

To inhabit the rural today is neither to revive idyllic images of the past nor to project technological utopias onto the future. What these houses show is an ethics of the everyday: living in the ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

In South Africa there’s a little-known ecosystem, containing more plant species than the entire Amazon, plants that are found ...

Large wild mammals—from elephants to antelopes—are already struggling to cope with global warming. Now new research shows ...

The Huíla plateau, bounded by dramatic cliffs and chasms, stands above the arid coastal plains in the country's southwest.

Beavers, earthworms, prairie dogs, elephants, and more don't just live in ecosystems, they reshape them to the benefit of ...

The woman identifies as an animist, according to an affidavit she filed as part of the city's case against her, which means ...

South African authorities raided a U.S. refugee facility in Johannesburg, briefly detaining U.S. staff who have been processing white Afrikaner refugees. The episode is sure to be a source of further ...

Media in Africa encompasses various forms of communication, including television, radio, print, and digital platforms, that serve to inform, entertain, and educate the continent's populations. This ...

The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...

Ahmed Ibrahim Yousef, 75, helps deliver a baby camel to a malnourished and dehydrated mother in a village near the border with Somaliland in the Horn of Africa. The carcasses of animals that died from ...