dailymail.co.uk — Vets in South Africa operated on 11-month-old Roccy after the young animal developed cataracts following a brutal attack last year....

businessdailyafrica.com — Nineteenth-century European explorers called Africa the “Dark Continent,” because to them it was vast and largely unknown.

Today, the continent may still be dark, but for a very different reason: it is chronically short of electricity....

bbc.co.uk — One of the world's tiniest lizards has been discovered by keen-eyed researchers in Madagascar....

sciencedaily.com — University of Missouri researcher has identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile. The extinct creature, nicknamed "Shieldcroc" due to a thick-skinned shield on its head, is an ancestor of today's crocodiles....

businessdailyafrica.com — Eleven years ago, as a Fulbright scholar, Nina Dudnik did a year-long research stint at the Africa Rice Centre in Côte d’Ivoire, where her colleagues meticulously rinsed out disposable items, such as pipette tips, so they could re-use them. Soon after, when she went to graduate school at Harvard University, United States, she saw that serviceable equipment and laboratory equip...