Africa has the greatest human genetic diversity and the hunter-gatherers of southern Africa represent some of the oldest known genetic lineages. They can therefore reveal more about where and when we ...

High-flying mosquitoes in West Africa are carriers of multiple pathogens, including West Nile virus, highlighting risks in ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Nouhoun Sidibè was a herder, like his father and grandfather, and took pride in his identity as a pastoralist. That's until the day armed men descended on his home ...

Contrary to popular belief, domestic cats arrived in Europe much later, around 2,000 years ago, from North Africa, not with ...

West Africa's cattle herders are being stripped of their animals by extremist-linked armed groups as the deadly conflict in ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

For fifteen years, scientists possessed only ghostly DNA evidence of the Denisovans—an ancient human lineage known solely ...

This video explores how an unexpected food source could play a major role in protecting Africa’s bush animals. As growing demand for snail farming expands, it offers an alternative to bushmeat, ...

The luxury getaway, which boasts “front-row seats to one of the world's greatest natural wonders,” may threaten the migration ...

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) defense contradicts claims that the lodge obstructs one of the world's most critical ...