The animals help redistribute calcium and phosphorous by crunching bones. This is an Inside Science story. The crushing jaws of hyenas may act as a kind of nutrient blender, grinding out calcium and ...

Nicholas B. Pattinson receives funding from DST-NRF Centre of Excellence at the FitzPatrick Institute. For birds in arid zones, rising temperatures pose a significant problem. Birds in these dry zones ...

Discover the landscape and wildlife of the Lower Okavango River, where the land is baked dry by the scorching sun of the Kalahari Desert and animals must adapt to the extreme environment. The Okavango ...

Photo Credit: Dr. Wendy Panaino (right) at work with a colleague in the Kalahari Desert weighing and measuring a pangolin. TswaluFoundation / Marcus Westberg @marcuswestbergphotography Wendy Panaino ...

Taking photographs for National Geographic allows you to unlock your wonder and explore your curiosity. Thomas Peschak was able to do both on a monthslong assignment in the Kalahari desert of southern ...

The aardvark is a rare animal—alphabetically, at least, where it’s the first creature listed in English-language dictionaries. And they’re usually rarely seen in their African home. But that’s because ...

PROF. J. W. GREGORY, in his article on my recent Kalahari pamphlet in NATURE of April 12, p. 539, objected to my citing the Sylphium of Cyrenaica as evidence of the former fertility of the desert. I ...

Meet the elephants that are on parade for an entire year. In the new documentary “Elephant,” now streaming on Disney+, we follow a herd of the enormous, big-hearted African animals who annually ...

Our favorite baby boy has a name! The newborn bat-eared fox at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is named Kalahari, or "Kal" for short, the zoo announced Thursday in a tweet. The name is a nod to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Strip number: 7831, 7832; Larrabee's description on negative sleeve: Bushmen of the Kalahari; Original negative number: 1/127 The cataloging of ...