one animal stands alone as the biggest land animal on earth, and that is the African elephant. Continue reading to discover everything you need to know about these colossal creatures. The African ...

The opposite is also true. In the 19th century, European cattle brought rinderpest—a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash ...

At least 12,000 years of isolation from mainland Africa has helped produce a one-of-a-kind ecosystem where life blooms from canopy to soil. In the year 1551 a strange male animal was put on public ...