This is the adorable moment two elephant calves try out their tusker skills to confront a tourist safari at a South African game reserve. Delighted holidaymakers at the Kapama Private…
A co-founder of the South African Satanic Church has walked out of the devil-worshipping cult after apparently finding Jesus. Riaan Swiegelaar resigned from his post as presiding priest of the…
A ram has been sentenced to three years in jail after it was convicted of killing a woman. The baffling sentence was passed by a court in Rumbek, capital of…
An outraged South African father has claimed that he found a dead frog in his daughter's McChicken burger. McDonald's in the town of Secunda in the South African province of…
These snaps taken recently and in the late 1800s show Jonathan the giant tortoise, who turns 190 this year and is believed to be the oldest tortoise to ever live.…
A chameleon has been treated and released back in the wild after it was attacked by a dog and left with a large hole in its side with part of…
These images show Max, a mad macaw with a habit of getting into fights, who has just been given a brand-new 3D-printed titanium prosthetic beak after his original one was…
A chimp that was sent to Kenya to learn how to be an ape after living its whole life with humans has been killed by fellow chimpanzees. The incident took…
Scientists have used ostrich egg shell beads to map a 50,000-year-old social network - the world's oldest, they claim - spanning Africa after over a decade of gathering data. The…
An international team of scientists has confirmed that this ancient ancestor of humans from nearly two million years ago that was unearthed in Africa's Cradle of Humankind is a missing-link…