Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large wild mammals – from elephants to antelopes – are already struggling to cope with global warming. Now new research shows that ...

correctionA Dec. 4 article about fossils of previously unknown mammal species discovered in Africa incorrectly identified tigers as members of modern Africa's native fauna. There are no native wild ...

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

Finally, some good news for the African Forest Elephants.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An uplisting isn’t a headline-grabbing label. It’s the science catching up to whether the risk to the mammals has worsened or not, ...

In the ongoing biodiversity crisis, large terrestrial animals are more threatened by extinction than any other group of organisms. The African continent holds an impressively intact large-mammal ...

One in five mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini is now threatened with extinction, according to a new regional “Red List,” highlighting rising pressures from habitat loss and degradation.

SOUTH WEST AFRICA—previous to the War German South-West Africa—is the dry and rather desolate land lying between the Cunene and the Orange Rivers on the north and south, the Atlantic on the west and ...