Communities across the globe marked World Elephant Day on Monday, a day created to raise awareness on how to help and protect ...

Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including ...

Great white sharks have vanished from a former South African hotspot, leaving scientists to debate over the cause.

Great white sharks have abandoned a former hotspot in South Africa. Some pin the blame on a pair of orcas. Others point the ...

A 250-million-year-old fossil from Africa reveals that early mammal ancestors laid eggs, offering insight into their survival ...

In August, 15-year-old Ruben took a 5,200-mile trip from a shuttered private zoo in Armenia to his new sanctuary home in South Africa Animal Defenders International A lion left by himself at an ...

In a study published in The Anatomical Record, researchers have identified a new species of large-bodied gorgonopsian from the middle Permian. The discovery pushed back the known origins of when these ...

This photo released by National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. (NSPCA), shows dead reptiles and amphibians on top of a metal table at the Johannesburg Zoo, South Africa, Wednesday, ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Animal welfare officers faced the grisly task of euthanizing more than 350,000 chickens by hand after they were left starving and cannibalizing each other when a South ...

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