The Africans on the intercepted ships carrying enslaved people were taken to the remote island of St. Helena where thousands died of disease and were buried in mass graves.

Decades after commercial poaching killed over 90 percent of the world’s black rhinos, a longshot plan by government officials ...

If you travelled back around 55 million years, you would not see powerful horses galloping across endless grasslands. Instead ...

One of the large, 1.4-million-year-old footprints that the team excavated. A 6-inch (~15 cm) ruler is shown for scale. Credit ...

In another demonstration, the researchers performed the analysis on African populations, which only received Neanderthal and ...

F or many years dogs were loathed in Rwanda. Rwandans turned against them after the genocide in 1994, when Hutu militias ...

A new study has uncovered an extraordinary set of 1.43-million-year-old fossil footprints in northern Kenya, providing a rare glimpse into the behavior and physical traits of an extinct human relative ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Some of the tallest creatures at the ABQ BioPark zoo are getting room to spread out. The zoo has plans to expand the giraffe habitat with a recently purchased property.

Africa’s largest annual agricultural trade exhibition will ban cloven-hoofed animals from this year event as South Africa struggles to control outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease. “Foot-and-mouth ...

Nigeria tops the list as Africa’s most culturally diverse nation, with more than 370 tribes. The Hausa-Fulani dominate the north, the Yoruba are prominent in the southwest, and the Igbo hold sway in ...

A self-styled "African tribe", who are camping in woodland in the Scottish Borders, stayed put on Monday despite receiving a second eviction notice from authorities, according to local media. The ...