JOHANNESBURG — South Africa is a hub for the international pet trade, with thousands of animals exported each year. Many of these are exotic birds and mammals like parrots and marmosets, bred locally ...

Naming all the creatures and plants in nature is no small task. Fortunate Phaka is a zoologist who has conducted the first comprehensive analysis of naming and classification of frogs and reptiles in ...

What happens when a species has not been seen by anyone for decades? Environmentalists think of these as “lost species”. We do not know if they’ve gone extinct, or if it’s simply that nobody has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fossilised colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It’s the ...

Scientists kept a 4-foot-long predator in captivity for over a decade and discovered a new species from Ethiopia, a study said. Photo from BDU Fellowship VLM via Unsplash A scientist visiting Ethiopia ...

A photographer on safari in Kenya has captured rare footage showing an enormous python navigating a shallow stream. The footage was captured in the Mara Triangle by Ollie Outram, an associate snake ...

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...