As the diamond supply dwindled, so the townspeople left in droves with possessions and homes completely abandoned. By 1956, ...

Africa has nine deserts in total but none are arguably as famous as the Sahara. The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, covering 3.5 million square miles - an area roughly the size of the ...

Africa's largest natural arch is located deep in the remote Sahara Desert, on the Ennedi Plateau in Chad, and reaching it is ...

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

Twenty-two are African languages, among them Ga (745,000 speakers in Ghana), Tshivenda (1.3 million in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique), and Wolof (8 million in Senegal).

The new species of African house snake is known from only one specimen, a roughly 10-inch long juvenile snake caught “in high-altitude semiarid” part of Somaliland, the study said. It has a ...

It’s a well-known fact that lizards like to bask in the sun to regulate their body temperature. But global warming is putting ...