Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

Chester Zoo’s largest-of-its-kind African savannah opens to visitors - The vast 22-acre habitat has become home to 57 species ...

A mining firm uncovered an epic lost shipwreck in the middle of an African desert, containing a multi-million-pound treasure haul. The vessel, a Portuguese ship called The Bom Jesus, dates back ...

Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.

This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches over a gravelly Richtersveld moonscape, a desert that straddles the South African and Namibian border along the ...