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Are you ready to get to know your animals? Here are 57 African animals with horns - 12 of which we'll highlight in detail.
Soda lakes contain plants and animals found nowhere else on earth ... spectacular flamboyances of flamingos will continue to grace east African lakes in the future. PhD Candidate, Department ...
Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is ...
Desert locusts have one one of the largest genomes known of any animal, he says ... National Geographic Since the locusts first reached East Africa, favorable breeding conditions have continued ...
A new peer-reviewed paper proposes the East African dugong population be listed as ‘critically endangered’ on the IUCN Red List to protect the last few hundred animals that are left.
DNA has great potential for unraveling humankind’s shared history with our animal companions ... back to a single domestication event in East Africa, perhaps in the Horn of Africa, around ...
John Yang reports. And finally tonight, the populations of some of Africa's most iconic animals have been bouncing back thanks to decades of conservation efforts. But activists are warning that ...
The study, "Genomic analysis reveals a new cryptic taxon of malaria vectors with a distinct insecticide resistance profile in the coast of East Africa," calls for urgent entomological and ...
Around 2.9 million years ago, an ancient hominin in East Africa butchered a hippopotamus and feasted on its pulverised flesh. Archaeologists found fossilised hacked bones of animals alongside ...