A vessel that had mysteriously vanished with the whole crew on one stormy night about 130 years back was found in a near-perfect state – but an “alien species” has reported… Read More
We are still going on with our extinct animal series, in which we introduce some of the not-very-common animals that disappeared from the face of the Earth in the last 400 years.
In our p… Read More
Cape Town is one of the most biodiverse cities in the world, and is at the centre of the world’s smallest and richest plant kingdom. The Cape Floristic Region contains over 9000 plant… Read More
The quagga was a subspecies of plains zebra that lived in South Africa until becoming extinct late in the 19th century. It was long thought to be a distinct species, but early genetic studie… Read More
In a spectacular valley less than two hours' drive north of Cape Town, a small herd of animals provides the chance to travel back in time over more than a century.
The last of the original… Read More