Though appearing similar with their golden coats and rosette spots, jaguars and leopards are distinct big cats. Jaguars ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Saharan savannah country. From the bumpy back seat of the safari ­vehicle, having morphed into full Jane (as in Tarzan) mode, ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Back in 1904, the park’s early “zoo” — if you could call it that — housed a rather small but exotic line-up: one lion, a ...

Penguins and polar bears do not share icy landscapes. Penguins evolved in the Southern Hemisphere, adapting to cold waters ...

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

From Botswana’s Delta to Namibia’s red dunes, here’s how to curate your dream African safari, the right country, season, and ...

Forest ranger Daouda Bamba is in no doubt about who the apex predator is in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, ravaged by war ...

Contributing writer Chris Colin travels halfway around the world with his family to take a first-of-its-kind safari, and ...