Travel expert Justin Chapman at Go2Africa reveals the best places to see six of the most endangered animals in Africa and ...

Scientists report in the journal PLOS ONE that rock paintings from the 19th century in southern Africa depict an extinct animal species. Archaeological work has identified drawings created by the ...

and many species went extinct in the past few tens of thousands of years. Each time our ancestors colonised new continents as they spread around the world from Africa, large animals were driven to ...

The African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), fondly nicknamed the “jackass penguin” due to its donkey-like bray, is found only ...

Wild Africa, an international conservation organisation, says one-third of Africa’s bat species are found in Nigeria, ...

"It was a human-driven extinction – European settlers came to Australia and brutally obliterated this animal," says Andrew Pask, a geneticist at the University of Melbourne. Pask is leading a ...

The rangers check the direction of the wind so that their scent will not be detected, and creep toward the animal. Normally they get no closer than 100 metres (330 feet), but today, Arthur is ...

The American genetic engineering firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced to much fanfare it had "de-extincted" the dire ...