The government has released stricter draft regulations on offshore ship-to-ship transfers in an attempt to protect South Africa’s fragile marine ecosystems.

Dogs are five times more effective than humans at this type of search and "also help us find the smaller tortoises which are ...

Miniature Namib day geckos are considered “small-sized,” reaching about 3 inches in length, the study said. Researchers said they named the new species after the Latin word for “‘smallest’ or ‘very ...

Welcome to the wild side of cute. If you thought pets were the peak of adorable, get ready to change your mind.From African ...

“The frilled or silver nudibranch Leminda millecra is found only on the South and East coast of South Africa and has produced ...

Blue Crane conservation status moved to "vulnerable" after steep population decline since 2010, with Western Cape's Overberg region worst affected ...

Snow, rain, damaging waves and winds are forecast for parts of the Eastern Cape and Western Cape, according to the South African Weather Service.

He was working in a pleasantly cool office at Iziko Museum of Natural History in Cape Town, South Africa, where he had been invited ... them – assigning them to long-extinct species – he noticed a ...

The Cape parrot, or Poicephalus robustus for the sciency folk, is endemic to South Africa as it occurs nowhere else in the world.

A powerful winter storm is sweeping across South Africa, bringing bitter cold, snow and flooding to several provinces. The Eastern Cape is hardest hit, with an Orange Level 9 warning issued for ...

The South Africa Weather Service issued warnings for very cold, wet and windy conditions, including snow in several parts of the country. Goats grazing in the snow in the Eastern Cape.