An international team of researchers has documented a previously unknown multi-country migration of Burchell’s zebra (Equus quagga) that is the longest...
Entomologists have described a new species of praying mantis from Nyungwe National Park, the Republic of Rwanda.
Dystacta tigrifrutex, female. Image credit:...
Scientists led by Dr Greger Larson of Durham University, UK, have for the first time compared DNA from living and extinct lions to reconstruct the historical...
Genetic researchers have successfully sequenced the genome of the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans), a bloodsucking insect that transmits the parasite Trypanosoma...
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) select a certain type of wood to make their nests, says a team of biologists from the United States.
A male chimpanzee at...
Petrocephalus boboto and Petrocephalus arnegardi, two new species of weakly electric fish, have been described from the Congo River.
Petrocephalus boboto...
According to a study of wild African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Kenya published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, elephants produce alarm calls...
Paleontologists and anthropologists led by Dr Kieran McNulty from the University of Minnesota have discovered definitive evidence of the widespread, dense,...
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,...
