We take you through some of the continent’s prized animals and landscapes ... many geologists to be the oldest desert in the world, the Namib in Southern Africa was created more than 55 million ...

At first glance, the young creature caught in a desert of eastern Africa might not have looked like much. But the slightly iridescent animal turned out to be a new species. Jakob Hallermann and ...

By Leonie Joubert Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their ...