In many group-living mammals, mothers may increase the reproductive success of their adult daughters. However, whether such maternal effects exist for...
A new species of stiletto snake has been discovered living in the rainforests of Liberia and Guinea.
The Branch’s stiletto snake (Atractaspis branchi)...
Approximately 2.1-billion-year-old fossilized tracks discovered in Gabon suggest the existence of a cluster of single cells that came together to form...
A species of aloe believed to be new to science has been found in Somaliland, a self-declared state, internationally considered to be an autonomous region...
Paleontologists in Tanzania have found fossil fragments from a new species of giant dinosaur that walked the Earth approximately 100 million years ago...
A team of researchers from New York University Abu Dhabi has described a new species of frog from Bibita Mountain, an unexplored and isolated mountain...
A duo of researchers from South Africa has discovered a remarkable new species of tarantula living in central Angola.
Ceratogyrus attonitifer. Image credit:...
While exploring Namibia, the desert country in southern Africa, a team of geologists from West Virginia University stumbled upon a peculiar land formation...
The first detailed comparative description of the external neuroanatomy of the 3.67-million-year-old Australopithecus prometheus fossil known as the Little...
An international team of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists has uncovered 2.4-million-year-old stone artifacts and cutmarked bones at the archaeological...
While already known that giraffes display preferred choices of companion within their social group, until now it has not been clear what drives these and...
An African freshwater fish species called the Peters’ elephantnose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) generates weak electrical pulses to safely navigate its...
A small songbird called the Siberian willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus yakutensis) holds a long-distance migration record in the 10-gram weight category...
An international team of botanists has discovered and described two new species of the African palm genus Raphia from Cameroon and Gabon.
Raphia zamiana:...
An international team of researchers has identified a cryptic new species of slender-snouted crocodile living in Central Africa.
The Central African slender-snouted...
Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a completely unexpected new sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived 200 million years ago (Jurassic period)...
An international team of ornithologists has discovered a new species of drongo living in the forests of western Africa.
A square-tailed drongo in Mkhuze...
A cross-hatched pattern drawn with an ochre crayon on a small piece of siliceous rock (silcrete) is 73,000 years old. It pre-dates the earliest previously...
Energy generation by wind and solar farms could reduce carbon emissions and thus mitigate anthropogenic climate change. A new climate-modeling study, published...
