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Escape the gloom with these big red wines bursting with the flavours of warm countries

Fossils may look to the untrained eye like an unremarkable set of sandy bones. But those bones can deepen or even rewrite our understanding of ancient history – and South Africa is a fossil treasure trove. Some of the country’s “treasures” have changed our own species’ family tree. These include…

It’s the world’s first significant rabies infection in marine mammals. And it has scientists – and beachgoers – worried.

As a third-generation Cape Codder, I have some thoughts on the Coastal Grandmother staple.

Giant panda reclining in cloudy hills eating bamboo, European bison picking their way through gloomy and lichen-draped forests and Cape mountain zebra roaming arid mountains. Ideas of how and where these species live are fixed in the public imagination, in conservation practice and even in some species’ names – but…

Seals have been biting people in the first big outbreak of the disease in marine mammals, writes Nick Dall in Cape Town

‘After [the dolphin] passed, I was just heartbroken, to see such a magnificent, majestic animal die, it was a tragedy happening,’ a resident who saw the stranded animals said

Animal rescuers have been able to coax more than 100 dolphins away from shallow waters around Cape Cod over the weekend after about 125 of the Atlantic white-sided dolphins became stranded

Animal rescuers were trying to keep dozens of dolphins away from shallow waters around Cape Cod after 125 of the creatures earlier stranded themselves