By any measure, the recent barrage of accusations by Temba Mliswa against Mrs Miniyothabo Baloyi-Chiwenga reads less like a conscientious exposé and more like a deliberate smear campaign, tailored to ...

Most of the time, when we picture animals in our minds, we think of the more colourful animals. But there is a whole other ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

A 2025 study offered a different explanation for Neanderthals' unusually high nitrogen-15 levels: They may have eaten maggots ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

Scavengers might seem scary and unusual, but they play a crucial role in the cycle of life on Earth. These animals feed on ...

Unlike most predators, hyenas are ruled by females and thrive through hierarchy and cooperation. Their physiology allows them to process bones for calcium, while their intelligence rivals that of ...

A “haunting” image of a hyena in a mining ghost town that took a decade to capture has won this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. The shot by South African wildlife photographer Wim ...

A hyena prowling an abandoned mining town and a beetle perched to witness the destruction of its forest habitat are the winners of the year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The two ...

Alongside the overall winning images, category winners were awarded for a range of subjects, such as animal portraits, animals in their environment, behaviour of mammals, amphibians and reptiles, ...