In a study published in the journal PLOS ONE, Julien Benoit from the University of the Witwatersrand confirmed that the rock ...

A lone buffalo doesn't stand much chance against a ferocious lion, but fortunately, cape buffalo are rarely alone.

The downturned tusks on the Horned Serpent panel are pointed in the same direction as dicynodont tusks – the opposite to elephants and warthogs. In fact, no living animal in Africa has tusks ...

Horns can help distinguish age and sex ... rinderpest—a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash across the continent.

Aside from living in different parts of Africa, they differ slightly in the ... Poaching for their horns is one of the biggest threats to white rhinos. Their horns are in demand in Asia, primarily ...

Thousands of the ungainly, horned animals fall prey to predators each ... With human populations booming in East Africa, some scientists have expressed concern that the pressures of development ...

Guwahati: The new NCERT mathematics textbook for Class 4 has sparked a controversy due to an incorrect illustration showing ...

has begun implanting South African rhinos in national parks with heart-rate monitors and embedding video cameras in their horns. Whenever an animal’s heart rate jumps, a radio collar sends an ...