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 ...

A dozen fish pulled from a South African river sparked years of debate before being confirmed as a new species.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...