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Winning the wildlife photograph of the year is a hard enough task, but doing so with a stunning, almost mystical shot of one of the rarest animals on earth is even harder. The brown hyena is that ...

These sixteen train journeys capture the best of what rail travel can offer, luxury, history ... of Africa, Rovos Rail stands ...

Scientists say the earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile, which was around 12 feet long, lived about 80 million years ago.

When you think of deserts, you might envision isolated wastelands confined to single nations. Yet the world's most massive ...

The Namib Erg, also known as the Namib Sand Sea, is one of the most ancient and spectacular desert landscapes on Earth. Stretching along Namibia’s Atlantic coast, it forms a vast expanse of shifting ...

Legends and rumors trail the elusive Queen of Sheba through the rock-hewn wonders and rugged hills of Ethiopia.

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to ...

For almost 300,000 years, humans were African. But whereas our previous human cousins had already made their way into Eurasia, our own species was more than 200,000 years confined to the mother ...

Hundreds of life-sized animal petroglyphs suggest that the notoriously arid region was populated around 12,000 years ago, according to a new study. The petroglyphs were discovered in prominently ...