DNA from museum samples of extinct animals is providing unexpected information on the extent and effect of the Ice Age as well as the path of species evolution, according to a report by scientists ...

In the third of three posts, we focus on individual exhibits from the weird and wonderful collection of our Museum of the Month - the Grant Museum. Here we see the skeleton of a female quagga (Equus ...

It was a fine day in Cape Town so we thought that looking for quaggas would be a great idea. I can’t say that our plans were well advanced or considered. There was no discussion on what the ...

Cape Town - Rediscovering the long-lost cousin of the zebra has been an ongoing project that started back in 1987 - but now more than ever scientists are confident they are on track to correcting an ...

As much as this may look like the head of a zebra has been photoshopped on to the front of a horse, this was in fact the quagga (Equus quagga quagga) - a subspecies of the plains zebra. Found in South ...

The aerial bombing of London during World War Two saw many of the city's treasures shipped out for safekeeping. One of the world's rarest skeletons was sent from the Grant Museum of Zoology to Wales.

Reinhold Rau, who died on February 11 aged 73, attempted to resurrect the quagga - a zebra-like animal with an oversized head that had been hunted to extinction in the 19th century; his quest is said ...

New Haven, Conn. -DNA from museum samples of extinct animals is providing unexpected information on the extent and effect of the Ice Age as well as the path of species evolution, according to a report ...