In a ground-breaking research study, scientists uncovered four distinct species of Africa’s much-loved gentle giant: the ...

Kargopoulos is the lead author of a new study, led by UCT, which has further confirmed, through their skull shapes, that ...

Many new names sounded as if they’d been cooked up by a medieval monk. HIV-1 would henceforth be known as Lentivirus ...

The giraffe is one of the world’s most iconic and unique mammals and has captured the human imagination through the ages. Surprisingly, only a few years ago, scientists discovered four distinct ...

This distinction of four giraffe species was confirmed in a recently published study that analysed the skull morphology of ...

There are 40 cat species — not even taking into consideration the various breeds of domesticated cats, which is over 70,— ...

A broad sampling of species, representing the tremendous morphological and habitat diversity of aloes, is the first step in establishing an evolutionary hypothesis for these plants. This comprehensive ...

What if the AI future doesn’t stretch to these sci-fi dystopias? For an evolutionary biologist, seeing AI technologies diversify into all manner of applications looks a lot like the proliferation of ...