Scientists have finally unlocked the secret to the legendary long-distance trekking ability of the wildebeest - and its all in the muscle fibres. A study shows their muscles are two-and-a-half times ...

WACO, Texas, Feb. 5 (UPI) --The analysis of several fossilized skulls of Rusingoryx atopocranion, recently discovered on Kenya's Rusinga Island, suggests the extinct wildebeest-like animal possessed a ...

Just north of the great Serengeti wildebeest migration, a smaller migration across the Mara ecosystem is collapsing. New maps ...

Blue wildebeests exist in a variety of colors, despite their name. There are gray, brown, light, and dark wildebeests, but all have a black mane and tail, short hair, a beard, and dark vertical bands ...

This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now ...

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting an animal that takes part in one of the most amazing ...

The lion has earned a reputation for being an apex predator and the king of the jungle. However, in a recent YouTube video, what seemed like the perfect ambush turned into a standoff between predator ...

It's a scene so terrifying, it could put you off rivers for life. A monster crocodile suddenly emerges from murky water to snatch a young wildebeest before clasping its jaws around the animal and ...

This is the moment a pair of vicious cheetahs tracked down and killed a wildebeest in Tanzania before being cheated out of their kill. The tenacious pair are muscled off of their quarry by a pack of ...