African ministers have pledged to protect millions of donkeys from rampant skin trade, marking a turning point for both the animals and the rural communities that depend on them.At the Pan-African ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

From hole-covered skin to bizarre textures, these creatures might just set off your trypophobia. Watch at your own risk these naturally occurring patterns are both fascinating and terrifying!

Stakeholders are meeting in Abidjan to deliberate on the measures to be enforced in saving the wellbeing of donkeys which ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first ...

Researchers have discovered that the genes related to extracellular matrix (ECM) and the Wnt signaling pathway characterize the independently acquired lip hypertrophy in cichlids of the East African ...

I am always thinking about how much sleep I get, whether it's counting the exact hours I'll have from getting home to waking ...

The zebra is perhaps one of the most iconic animals when it comes to stunning natural patterns. These African equids are best known for their black and white stripes, which have fascinated scientists ...

Cuttlefish. Image via Pexels. Cuttlefish possess perhaps the most sophisticated color-changing mechanism in the animal kingdom. These cephalopods can reproduce almost any background pattern they ...

Regulatory and disruptive variants in the CLCN2 gene are associated with modified skin color pattern phenotypes in the corn snake. Genome Biology, 2025; 26 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s13059-025-03539-0 ...