A 90-million-year-old fossil discovered in Morocco is the oldest known iguanian lizard from Africa, which could help tell the story of lizard evolution...
Giraffes actually are not one species, but four, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology.
Reticulated giraffe (G. reticulata)...
An international team of researchers from the United States and Madagascar has described a new, possibly microendemic, species of the snake genus Madagascarophis...
For the first time, scientists have sequenced and analyzed the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of the Cameroon scaly-tail (Zenkerella insignis), one of Africa’s...
A team of archaeologists studying bone artifacts discovered in a cave on the island of Unguja in the Zanzibar archipelago of Tanzania has found evidence...
An international team of genetic researchers from the United States and Europe has found new evidence that there was an Ice Age refugium in southern Arabia.
Spatial...
In a study published online in the journal Science, paleontologists from China and the United States report the discovery of a diverse primate fauna from...
According to a team of scientists headed by Dr. Jean-Jacques Hublin at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, tooth-marks...
Life in what is now Tanzania was difficult and dangerous 1.8 million years ago, according to a team of scientists from the United States, Switzerland and...
A partially preserved femur from the Kem Kem beds of Morocco has revealed the size of a large-bodied theropod dinosaur called abelisaur.
An artist’s...
An international team of scientists from Czech Republic, France and Germany has identified a cryptic new species of grass snake living in the North African...
A team of scientists led by Dr. Michele Menegon of the Museo delle Scienze in Trento, Italy, has described a previously undocumented species of chameleon...
According to a new study published this week in the journal Current Biology, Secretary birds can kick with 195 Newtons, which is equivalent to about 5...
A new genus and species of coelacanth has been identified from fossils found in a 360 million year-old fossil estuary near Grahamstown, in the Eastern...
The Cape parrot (Poicephalus robustus) should be elevated to the species level, says a team of scientists at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
This...
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences debunks the widely-held conservative notion that early human herders, moving...
Every year, millions of tons of dust from the Sahara desert cross the Atlantic Ocean, bringing vital phosphorus and other fertilizers to depleted Amazon...
An international team of paleontologists headed by Marco Marzola from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal, has discovered nearly 70 fossilized tracks...
