What happens when a species has not been seen by anyone for decades? Environmentalists think of these as "lost species." We ...

Researchers collected 14 specimens from the west African coast, including one from a market in Ghana, and confirmed it was ...

The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and ...

A newly discovered trove of fossilized footprints provides what may be the first evidence of prehistoric diversity in ...

Macroinvertebrates include snails and larvae of dragonflies, caddisflies, mayflies and stoneflies, among others. They can be ...

A new WWF report is sounding the alarm on Africa’s freshwater fish: one in four fish species it assessed is at risk of ...

An estimated 26 per cent of Africa’s freshwater fish species are threatened (including those assessed as Critically ...

Freshwater fish are an ‘aquatic version of the canary in the coalmine’ for Africa’s rivers, lakes and wetlands, a new report ...

Winston's Wildlife Safari has added a new species to its animal collection: three male African Painted Dogs from the Oklahoma ...

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This viral video shows a male African bullfrog digging a channel to rescue his tadpoles. Find out why the dads do all the ...