Africa has several different types of habitats from jungles and forests to grasslands and deserts. The second-largest ...

Discover what it's like to sail aboard the 44-passenger Harmony G along the coast of West Africa and up the Gambia River.

Until now, though, the oldest firm evidence for people living in African rainforests dated to around 18,000 years ago. The ...

Critically endangered hooded vultures in Nigeria that once fed on the carcasses of wild animals are now largely dependent on ...

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of natural environment we evolved in. Until recently, the dominant idea was that ...

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of ...

A global study finds mangroves support 700 billion juvenile fish and invertebrates every year, showing their vital role in ...

Elephants are creatures of habit, and they typically don’t show up here at the Mushara waterhole in Namibia’s Etosha National ...

A RUST disease of maize has been known in West Africa for many years ... but in 1949 one of us (F. C. D.) found an epidemic of maize rust in Sierra Leone. In 1950 epidemics were reported from ...

Thirty-three-year-old Michael Ellis is charged with five counts of mistreatment to animals, after dozens were found dead in his foreclosed Milwaukee home last year. Ellis was expected to change ...

Outgoing Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Thursday bade farewell to his counterparts across West Africa, calling for renewed ...

Wildebeest, a gorilla and a giraffe were among the life-size puppets (AFP photos) The trek includes "now 20, later 40, later 70 animals from all over west Africa, Morocco, Europe who are ...