In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals – monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe – stand at attention in a clearing. Their handlers, puppeteers dressed in black, begin to move ...

At least 50 hippopotamuses died from anthrax poisoning in Virunga National Park, the oldest African national park located in ...

The Dolphin Research Center (DRC) in the Florida Keys is designing a project using an array of 15 hydrophones to listen to the dolphin’s sonar clicks. The signals are captured with a 16-channel ...

A MAJOR hospital is racing to identify patients and staff exposed to mpox after an infected person visited A&E. Mpox is a viral infection that is most commonly found in Africa but has spread ...

Conservationists and journalists say they’re being threatened with legal action after raising questions about the impact of ...

Birds may have comparatively simple brain setups, but evidently they make it work: “these animals are terribly intelligent,” Nieder said, “so, obviously, evolution found two different ways ...

A recently published paper reveals that soil scratching by gorillas in Congo's Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park is a foraging ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the environment to technology and archaeology. Laura is an editor and staff ...

April 15, 2025 • When a 5.2 earthquake hit near San Diego yesterday, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park caught its elephants on video taking action to protect their young, forming what experts call ...

Muslims around the world have been holding prayers to mark the festival of Eid al-Fitr after the end of Ramadan. Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved ...