Elephants (megaherbivores) in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania, Africa. (Courtesy of Juan Cantalapiedra via Courthouse News) (CN) — Africa is known for its megafauna. Its massive, iconic creatures, ...

Giant ancient animals known as megafauna, originally thought to have gone extinct due to the arrival of human beings, have now been found to have perished for other reasons. In a paper published in ...

Africa is home to some of the world's most recognizable and diversified megafauna, including elephants, lions, rhinos, hippos, leopards, and giraffes. ・Africa boasts an array of diverse megafauna such ...

Faysal Bibi (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin) and Juan L. Cantalapiedra (University of Alcalá, Madrid) used measurements of thousands of fossil teeth to reconstruct the size and abundance of African ...

When Joshua Daskin traveled to Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park in 2012, the park and the iconic large animals that roamed it were returning from the brink of extinction. Gorongosa, among Africa's ...

African wildlife, such as elephants, giraffes and zebras, are more afraid of human beings. This study was conducted at Kruger National Park. 10,000 recordings depicted that human sounds were more ...

One of Africa's last remaining wilderness areas is in good shape and could potentially support 50,000 elephants and 1000 lions, a study has found. Niassa National Reserve is Mozambique's largest ...

There’s the “big 5” of African game animals: lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino. Most people area also obsessed with giraffes and zebras, and occasionally crocodiles and meerkats and hyenas.