The story behind the award-winning photo of an elusive brown hyena bringing new life to the Namib Desert. At night, the long-abandoned diamond mining town of Kolmanskop is almost empty. The tourists ...

It took ten years for Wim van den Heever to capture his perfect shot. After noticing paw prints and scat in an abandoned mining town along the coast of southern Namibia, he saw an opportunity to snap ...

The hyena, a creature often misunderstood and criticised in today’s culture, is one of the most intriguing animals in Africa. Known for its distinctive laugh-like call and its role as a scavenger, the ...

In a rare sighting captured in video, an aardvark trying to escape a hungry hyena giving chase pulled off an incredible disappearing act that would make illusionist David Copperfield proud. The ...

Some wild animals are relatively easy to study. Certain penguin populations, for instance, are so unaccustomed to large predators that they barely fear humans and will often wander right up to ...

Hairs that likely belonged to humans living 195,000 to 257,000 years ago in Africa have been identified in fossilized brown hyena dung, according to a new study that describes the first non-bony ...