The project, a partnership of the Swiss Center for Scientific Research and the Institute for Breeding Rare and Endangered African Mammals ... the pygmy hippo lives a reclusive life deep in the ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering ... from sightings of multiple large mammals including rhinos, hippos, and ...

Extraordinary wildlife destinations from around the world that you must add to your bucket list, including the Great ...

Scientists in Egypt discovered a not-before-known apex predator that lived 30 million years ago, potentially helping to solve an extinction mystery.

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, ...

What has the body of a dog, the face of a cat, and jaws powerful enough to potentially crush the bones of an elephant? Meet ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

Discovered in Fayum, Egypt, the powerful predator would have lived in a then-tropical rainforest environment ... preying on primates, early hippos, early elephants and hyraxes, but were later ...

Asia and Africa. Some were as big as rhinos, while others resembled small weasels.During the Oligocene period, the Fayum Depression was a lush, tropical rainforest. Bastetodon would have preyed on ...