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…
Three young children including a baby have died after eating instant noodles while visiting family members. The victims have been named as Sinothando Ngwendu, 11, Olwam Ngwendu, 7, and four-month-old…
The owners of a childcare centre in South African have complained that the tots are too scared to play outside because the neighbours keep two white tigers that peer at…
The baby of a young South African woman who made headlines because she was born looking older than her mum has died. Anesipho was born suffering from a rare genetic…
Studies have found that even after an orphaned elephant is adopted into a new herd after losing its parents to poaching its chances of survival remain poor compared to those…