Africa is home to some of the most powerful and awe-inspiring creatures on Earth, where brute strength meets raw survival instinct. In this video, we unveil the 6 most powerful animals that reign ...

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Benoit first saw a painting by the San people of a creature that appeared semi-mythical in a book dating to the 1910s. Benoit tracked down the farm in South Africa where it was described — the same ...

To be fair, there really was a time when these creatures were commonplace across big swaths of Africa. In his 2012 memoir, Ghanaian President John Mahama describes how his father encountered a pride ...

Within Naskrecki’s favorite group, those stridulating green creatures he knows as tettigoniids, which animate the lush forests of Gorongosa with thrilling, trilling song, there is also good news ...

Imagination Enchanted Creatures: Monsters in Our Collective Imagination Natalie Lawrence's new book uncovers an other-worldly natural history. Posted March 30, 2025 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader ...

The opening of Lauren St John's debut novel is so hot it almost burns. The White Giraffe opens as 11-year-old Martine Allen is at home in bed when her dream turns into a very real nightmare.

Dr. Benoit found the tusked figure comparable with dicynodont fossils, an interpretation that is also supported by San myths of large animals that once roamed the region but are now extinct. He ...

Macroinvertebrates include snails and larvae of dragonflies, caddisflies, mayflies and stoneflies, among others. They can be ...

While visiting South Africa with Mike Dorcas, a professor at Davidson College, I heard no stories about the sort of creatures that reside in people’s imagination rather than in the real world ...

South African divers Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck say they have stumbled across a pristine realm off the west coast of South Africa that most people don't know about. The duo spend their days ...