Several African and Native American cultures have stories of gigantic ... Fawkes. Many theorize that the mythical bird is named after Guy Fawkes, a British soldier-turned-rebel, who participated in ...

Yet by situating the film in “Africa”—instead of in a specific nation or region—the film also furthered the myth that the continent is a single, undifferentiated entity. (Madagascar partly takes place ...

Believed to live in swamps, the ninki-nanka appears in the folklore of many parts of West Africa. It is described as having a ... after being shown pictures of various reptiles and mythical animals, ...

under CC-BY 4.0 Mysterious creatures with bird-like feet roamed around southern Africa more than 210 million years ago, according to new research—roughly 60 million years before the earliest ...

By Rachel Nuwer Silhouettes of patrolling raptors filled skies throughout Africa as recently as a few decades ago, but it’s much less common to spot those birds of prey today. Now, new research ...

Africa’s birds of prey are facing massive decline with 90% of the continent’s “spectacular” species under threat, research by a Scottish university has showed. Raptors lead an ...