The new African Plains Building, once finished, will be about 10,000 square feet — nearly double the old structure’s current size. This will allow the giraffes to have more space to move ...

The white cap of Kilimanjaro has towered over the African plains for untold ages but its glaciers are under threat from climate change. “When the world first started taking climate change ...

The skills may have crossed the Sahara desert with the Berber nomads who dominated much of the North African plains. It has also been suggested that iron smelting may have started in Africa itself ...

Native to Africa's grasslands and savannas, they are closely related to horses and donkeys but have unique traits that ...