The African slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus), long thought to be a single species, is actually two distinct species, according to an...
Paleontologists have discovered a new genus and species of dicynodont that lived in what is now modern Mozambique during the Late Permian period, about...
Simulating paleoclimates in the Sahara region, a team of researchers from Germany and United Kingdom has found evidence of three major river systems that...
An international team of biologists has described five new species of Vesper bats from Senegal.
Image of Nycticeinops schlieffenii which is represented...
Biologist Dr Chris Stapleton from the United Kingdom has described two new genera of African mountain bamboos.
Oldeania alpina looks like a Phyllostachys...
A large team of biologists from the United States, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium and Germany, has reported the discovery of a new shrew species...
A large multinational team of genetic researchers has identified three unique genetic variations that influence body size and obesity in men and women...
A new doctoral thesis by Eva-Marie Ström from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden is the first attempt ever to explore Ndengeleko, a language that...
Newly discovered fossils from 10 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction reveal a lineage of animals thought to have led to dinosaurs in what...
The elusive West African Seahorse, Hippocampus algiricus, has been filmed for the first time off the coast of Senegal by Imperial College London’s student...
A professional paleontologist studying fossils in a collection at Harvard University has identified a new species of dinosaur.
The newly discovered species,...
An international team of biologists has discovered a new species of monkey in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Cercopithecus lomamiensis (Maurice Emetshu)
The...
Biologists have discovered that the Pollia condensata fruit does not get its blue color from pigment but instead uses structural color – a method of...
An international team of scientists has substantially increased the age at which we can trace the emergence of modern culture, all thanks to the San people...
An international team of researchers has discovered the first unequivocal evidence that humans in prehistoric Saharan Africa used cattle for their milk...
Dr. Jay Stauffer from the Penn State University and Adrianus Konings from Cichlid Press have announced the discovery of a new haplochromine cichlid fish...
Songo Mnara, once a thriving city off the coast of Tanzania in East Africa, has been empty and abandoned for many more centuries than it flourished. A...
