In Arusha, Tanzania, Lubega John Nsamba represented her ailing father, John Mary Nsamba, whose land along the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) had been acquired without what the family ...

Archaeologists say a 2,200-year-old specimen is the first direct evidence of how the Carthaginian war machine used the giant ...

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

The giraffe is the tallest land animal on Earth - but height alone doesn’t explain its survival in one of the most competitive ecosystems on the planet. In this video, we explore how its elevated ...

About 150 people rallied at Philadelphia’s President’s House site, demanding the National Park Service restore slavery ...

The findings suggest these ghost elephants survived Angola’s war by never leaving—adapting instead by becoming invisible. “I ...

Archaeologists have found the first direct evidence of what may have been a war elephant deployed by Hannibal during the Second Punic War (218-201 BCE). To date, evidence of these war animals has ...

Wildlife trafficking is one of the most lucrative illicit industries worldwide. It nets between US$7 billion and $23 billion per year, according to the Global Environment Facility, a group of nearly ...

There is an African proverb that states, “Where elephants fight, the grass is trampled.” Nowhere is this a truer metaphor than the effect of global politics on international development and, ...

War disrupts nomads' traditional routes and livelihoods Nomads face threats from bandits as well as ethnic tensions One nomad ...

While some young elephants are quiet and reserved, others—like Pardamat—wake up every day and choose chaos the moment their ...