A 22.5 acre (nine hectare) savannah, designed to replicate the grasslands of Africa, is to open at Chester Zoo. One of the UK ...

The vast 22.5 acre area is the UK’s biggest ever zoo development, designed to replicate the grasslands of Africa ...

APOPO is a global non-profit organization that trains rats to save lives. The group uses African giant pouched rats to sniff ...

Chester Zoo's new Heart of Africa zone is 22.5 acres and makes up one fifth of the zoo (Image: Chester Zoo) These include critically endangered vultures, a colony of naked mole rats, Africa's largest ...

The African dormouse, also known as a micro squirrel, is a tiny rodent that looks a lot like a very small squirrel with some ...

The fat-tailed jird, a small North African rodent with a distinctive club-shaped tail, is a convenient research subject and an emerging model for Old World leishmaniasis. The authors present the ...

From the top of Shifting Sands dune in the Serengeti Plain of Africa a million mammals are in motion. Wildebeests. Zebras. Gazelles. The plain is black with them. It is wildebeest calving season ...

Certain species of amphibians and reptiles easily regrow limbs after losing them in times of danger, but tissue regeneration is much more limited in mammals. Now, researchers describe a species of ...

Perhaps the most puzzling question Jared Diamond encounters as he investigates animal domestication is: Why were no large mammals ever domesticated in tropical Africa? Africa, south of the Sahara ...

Homo sapiens is the only living representative of the tribe Hominini, but of course this was not always the case; our ancestors overlapped in time and space with other species throughout the Plio ...