A feisty elephant’s rummaging expedition in a tourist group’s Land Rover almost ended badly, leaving onlookers in a panic.
American social media superstar Kelvin Peña tried to make friends with a penguin in Cape Town, but the penguin wasn’t having it.
Google Doodles decided to honour Steve Irwin on what would have been his 57th birthday. Enter PETA from way out of left field.
The SharkSafe Barrier, patented by Stellenbosch University, promises to revolutionise beach safety against shark attacks. Now the tussle over who invented what begins.
Ever wondered why zebras are striped? Scientists believe that they’ve finally figured it out, and I guess we can all relate.
The Wallace’s giant bee was thought to be extinct, until a dedicated team spent days combing the forest of a remote Indonesian island.
National Geographic is celebrating reaching 100 million followers on Instagram. Here are some of their most popular pics.
Buffel the Southern Elephant Seal is visiting Fish Hoek Beach in Cape Town at the moment, attracting visitors eager to snap a photo.
Travis Kauffman was on a run when he was attacked by a mountain lion, leaving him with no choice but to fight for his life.
Allen Walker has won a top award for his shark photography at the World Shootout 2018 awards, which focuses on underwater photography.
Stop whatever you’re doing and look at the gorgeous pics of this rare African black leopard spotted in Kenya.
The people have spoken, and the People’s Choice Award has been allocated in this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
The small town in Russia has been overrun by polar bears, with locals patrolling constantly, firing shots in the air, or setting off stun grenades.
Insects outweigh all the humans on earth by a factor of 17, but they’re currently losing the battle against habitat loss, pollution and other man-made factors.
There’s always been an air of mystique around the Knysna forest elephants. SANParks’ extensive study has revealed some pretty heartbreaking findings.
I don’t want to ruin the ending here, but I’m guessing you have a good idea about who is going to come out tops.
Six villagers in the northern Indian city of Jalandhar were injured, before the leopard was eventually caught and tranquilised.
When you’re barrelling down a hill at around 65 kilometres per hour, you really don’t want to run slap bang into a deer. Enter Reed Soehnel.
The remote Pacific Island of Niue mourns the death of their feathered friend Trevor, known affectionately as ‘the world’s loneliest duck’.
Divers jumped at the opportunity to film themselves swimming alongside Deep Blue, a monster great white spotted off the coast of Hawaii.
There’s a new shark video doing the rounds on WhatsApp and social media, showing a beaut swimming just off the backline in Plett.
Roger, the seriously ripped kangaroo that became famous for his bodybuilder-like physique, has died at the ripe old age of 12.
Over the weekend, America’s 41st president passed away. Now his faithful service dog, Sully, is coming to grips with the loss.
Roman Fedortsov, a fisherman from Russia, finds and photographs bizarre-looking creatures at the bottom of the sea.
Knickers is an extremely large and very cute Holstein Friesian steer, who towers over his companions and weighs a whopping 1 400 kilograms.
Having sorted through 107 photographers, 119 stories, and more than two million photographs, Nat Geo have picked out their finest efforts for the year.
Constantia’s bee population has taken a battering over the past few weeks, with the local industry suffering massive revenue losses.
During the second episode of ‘Dynasties’, the new BBC and David Attenborough collaboration, the film crew broke the cardinal rule.
‘Our Planet’, featuring Sir David, is the culmination of a four-year shooting process that took various crews to 50 countries across all seven continents.
Drone footage has captured a dog and a family of bears having a pretty good time together in a far-flung corner of Russia.