Luckily, some are very easy to avoid, as they live in far-flung locales, but we can encounter others like ants, bees and wasps ... Australia, Africa and South America. Notable features: Females ...

New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing ...

Few creatures can tangle with a velvet ant and walk away unscathed. These ground-dwelling insects are not ants, but parasitic wasps known for their excruciating stings. Now researchers have ...

Then he topped himself, and every other filmmaker of the time, with the film-noir-gone-mad genius of “Blue Velvet” (1986). Then came the dread-drenched soap opera of “Twin Peaks” (kicking ...

2024 was a notable year for some of South Africa’s richest people, with all of the country’s billionaires listed by Forbes increasing their net worth and gaining in the world rankings.

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Twenty-five victims' families and survivors of apartheid-era political crimes have sued South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his government for what they ...

The first thing to understand about velvet ants is that they are not ants. They’re wasps, some of which are wingless, and are named in part for their exteriors. About the size of a board-game die, a ...

As 2025 dawns, African nations are looking out onto an uncertain global political landscape. Russia's grinding war in Ukraine still has no end in sight, the United States is about to swear in an ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege, as a local volunteer described the horror ...