There are still places on this planet where human footprints are almost nonexistent, where the maps blur into blank space and the rules of life seem to bend. In an age of satellites, drones, and street-level mapping of entire cities, these wild pockets feel almost like a contradiction. Yet from mile-deep caves to hidden ...
Weather is supposed to be the everyday background noise of our lives, yet some days it turns into something so intense that it rewrites the record books and reshapes how we understand the planet. Even with satellites watching every cloud and supercomputers running climate models, a handful of extreme events still sit alone at ...
Space has a way of humbling even the boldest scientific claims. For every sleek headline about new exoplanets or black hole images, there are stranger stories lurking just beyond what our telescopes and equations can comfortably explain. In the shadows of the cosmos lie puzzles that refuse to resolve neatly: signals with no clear ...
South Africa’s biodiversity isn’t simply a cache of exotic species, it’s also a living repository of cultural history. For decades, scientific literature has compiled frogs and reptiles in Latin names, so the Indigenous nomenclature for these animals is dispersed and unrecorded. And now, in a trailblazing research led by zoologist Fortunate Phaka, the first comprehensive ...
Every year, in a world increasingly shaped by cities, highways, and glowing satellites, countless animals still slip into motion on journeys so vast they defy imagination. Scientists track them with lasers, satellites, and tiny tags, yet the big question lingers: how do they know where to go, and why do they risk everything to ...
A new species of mosasaur named Tylosaurus rex – twice the length of a great white shark, with finely serrated teeth and evidence of violent combat against its own kind – has just been identified from 80-million-year-old Texas fossils that had been sitting in museums for decades – Image for illustrative purposes only (Image credits: ...
Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury are lining up in the western sky after sunset this week – and a Blue Moon is sliding past Antares – in a run of evening sky events that won’t be matched again for years – Image for illustrative purposes only (Image credits: Unsplash) As May 2026 nears its end, the ...
What drives the trafficking of gibbons? Conservationists shed light on demand – Image for illustrative purposes only (Image credits: Unsplash) Authorities across parts of Asia recorded an unprecedented number of gibbon confiscations in 2025, with 336 animals seized in the first eight months alone. That figure accounts for roughly one-fifth of all documented cases since ...
July 2026: What’s in the Southern Hemisphere sky this month? – Image for illustrative purposes only (Image credits: Pixabay) Sky watchers across the Southern Hemisphere can expect a striking sight as July 2026 opens. Three planets appear in the early evening sky, with Venus standing out as the brightest. The planet reaches magnitude –4.1 and ...
Platypus population expands to 20 in Australia's Royal National Park – Image for illustrative purposes only (Image credits: Unsplash) Royal National Park, just south of Sydney, holds a network of creeks and rivers that have quietly become home to a growing group of platypuses. Recent monitoring by researchers from UNSW Sydney shows the reintroduced population ...
