Scientists found a legless animal with a “collar” under a rock in the mountains of Angola and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Luis M. P. Ceríaco In the mountains of Angola, a ...

Scientists found a pregnant patterned animal in the Namba mountains and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from W.R. Branch and Baptista, Vaz Pinto, Keates, Lobón-Rovira, Edwards and Rödel ...

Fires and unsustainable wood harvesting have depleted the Afromontane forests on Mount Moco, Angola’s highest mountain. The forests are home to a diverse variety of birds, some found only in Angola.

Francis’s gorgeous sapphire — a new-to-science species of butterfly — has just been described in the high-altitude evergreen forests of western Angola. The identification of Iolaus francisi, with its ...

Due to many years of conflict, the biodiversity of Angola remains one of the least known in Africa. Recently, scientists from Angola, Portugal, and the United States conducted a series of field ...

The Kaokoveld region, covering north-western Namibia and south-western Angola, is one of the remotest areas in southern Africa. Although it's extremely dry, it is a centre of species endemism: many ...

Under the cover of darkness, a group of patterned creatures gathered around a rocky pool on a mountain in Angola. It was the animal’s breeding season. The activity, however, was interrupted by passing ...