Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

Perhaps the most puzzling question Jared Diamond encounters as he investigates animal domestication ... domestication of other African wild game. Rhinos, at over 5 tons in weight and immensely ...

One of the more immediate ancestors of modern humans, Homo erectus, lived between 500 thousand and 1.5 million years ago ... of evidence found at one of Africa's most important geological sites ...

The opposite is also true. In the 19th century, European cattle brought rinderpest—a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash ...

Today, the term “Big Five” refers to the beauty and power of some of Africa’s most iconic animals. However, it has a much darker history. Trophy hunters in the 19th century considered ...

This unit of three sessions imagines life at a typical waterhole in the African bush as animals come and go to drink and wash…and engage in the daily battle for survival. The emphasis is on ...