The savanna (sometimes mistakenly spelled as "Savannah," which is in the state of Georgia) describes an African region with grasslands and minimal tree densities. This wide-open landscape becomes a ...

Ocean's Giant The blue whale is a true marvel of the marine world. Known as the largest animal to ever exist on Earth, these ...

Creel and his colleagues have been researching wild dogs and lions in two Zambian national parks for more than a decade.

Africa, south of the Sahara, is home to the richest diversity of animal life on the planet ... Sharing their habitat with some of the most dangerous predators on earth, including lions and ...

Sabre-toothed predators once roamed ecosystems around the globe. Their fossils have been found in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia ... species and modern animals. First, we measured their ...

New study shows that tourists unknowingly alter animal behavior. Predators shift activity to the day, while prey adjust or ...

African wild dogs, which have a 70-percent success rate in their predatory kills, are touted as the world’s most efficient hunters in the animal kingdom. They hunt in packs and relentlessly ...

Herds of impala, wildebeest, kudu and other large herbivores are in decline across sub-Saharan Africa, in part due to rising ...

Buffalo and bison aren’t the same animals. How the misnomer ... Gathering in such large groups helps dissuade predators like lions, leopards, hyenas, and African wild dogs.

The mysterious, silent giants face increasing threats in Africa ... an otherwise fairly defenseless animal a high vantage point to watch the horizon for predators. Undoubtedly linked to the ...

African savanna elephants, Loxodonta africana africana, are the largest land animals. They can grow to be 10-13 feet ... They are nocturnal predators and adults are solitary except for mating. The ...