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

Think of African elephants and you might picture them wandering among open grasslands or making their homes in forests. But in northwest Namibia, amidst an arid landscape of rocky mountains, sand, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...