Indigenous people in southern Africa may have been painting long-extinct creatures from 260 million years ago, even before ...

Cattle egrets live on insects. And in the savannah, insects congregate on the ubiquitous water buffalo. In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, you'll find these birds constantly perched atop buffalo ...

Once the snake has swallowed the animal whole, the real digestive process begins. Snakes have extremely strong stomach acids ...

Researchers say this 200-year-old South African cave painting likely depicts an animal that has been dead for over 200 ...

The first inhabitants of southern Africa knew about locally abundant dicynodont fossils and made rock art about them.

SALISBURY, MD - The zoo says spider monkey Dweasal died after a fight with his brother, Rozindi. The Salisbury Zoo announced ...

The animal does not appear to match up with any known species ... the La Belle France site tend to be around 250 million ...

Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

Mammals independently evolved similar inner ear shapes, showing convergence due to shared environmental pressures.

Veterinary staff provided CPR for more than an hour to try to save him. A full necropsy (animal autopsy) was performed. The necropsy revealed a bite wound to Dweasal’s skull. That wound, and the ...

She was incredible. I met her parents. Incredible people. The 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia who was barbarically ...

Scientists recently made an exciting discovery about how a prehistoric sea cow became prey for two different predators—a ...