Africa is a continent full of animals known as charismatic megafauna - that is, awe inducing beasties of large size, ...

Overfishing and ecosystem disruption are leaving African penguins without enough food to survive. Their suffering signals a broader collapse in the ocean food web, but new policies and conservation ...

Angie Elwin works for an international NGO, World Animal Protection, as the Head of Research, and is a Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. Delagnon Assou is a Research ...

Growing up, I vividly remember reading through nature-related magazines, fascinated by the vast numbers of creatures inhabiting our planet. I spent summers at my grandmother’s West Virginia home ...

Four African penguins, who are a critically endangered species, hatched at Mystic Aquarium earlier this month. The penguin chicks hatched in early January and they're the offspring of two first-time ...

A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to extinction since 2016. Those that have joined the International Union for the ...

Eleven cheetah cubs were rescued from illegal trade in Somaliland in what a conservationist described on Thursday as "one of the largest confiscations of the species." The cubs were packed in bags ...

STONINGTON — Two critically endangered African penguins hatched at Mystic Aquarium on Sunday as a massive winter storm ...