Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture, and scientists have long sought to understand them. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study African ...

In the Karoo Basin of South Africa, an unusual tusked beast is painted on a rock wall. Archaeologists have previously ...

The first inhabitants of southern Africa knew about locally abundant dicynodont fossils and made rock art about them.

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by ...

From an African king to a Chinese princess, meet the fascinating figures whose stories are forever entwined with the Silk ...

“The Great Elephant Migration,” a touring public-art exhibition that has opened ... a drought-stricken Southern African nation, is planning to cull elephant herds for food.

“And art.” “Do you think about the elephant ... it is “highly likely” that poachers killed at least 25,000 African elephants in 2011. The true figure may even be double that.

So, to paint a picture, the vast majority of mammals ... To conduct this study, photographs were taken from African elephant bulls postmortem and from living Asian elephants from the Berlin ...

The South African has spent the past two decades photographing lions, rhinos and elephants, embracing more adventure than ...

Sleep outdoors in Star Beds and experience the ultimate walking safari tracking Cheetahs and the Big 5 at Samara Karoo ...

I considered other possibilities – might it be a pig, a warthog or an elephant ... Read more: Rock painting is the oldest image of an African rail, a bird that may have had a special ...