The Onymacris plana, a darkling beetle, is the first known land animal that gets cooler as it exercises, scientists said.

Duncan Mitchell has received funding from South African National Research Foundation, South African Medical Research Council, Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, Australian Research Council. Joh R. Henschel ...

Standing on the coast of Namibia looking out over the ocean, an ominous sound calls out from the rolling fog. This place is known as the Skeleton Coast, and the sound starts out as pulsing notes that ...

During the Later Stone Age in what is now Namibia, rock artists imbued so much detail into their engravings of human and animal prints that current-day Indigenous trackers could identify which animals ...

The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot - the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising number of around 200 beetle species live on its bare, inhospitable-looking ...