wired.com — For decades, people have been mystified by thousands of bare, circular soil patches that dot arid western African landscapes with inexplicable geometric precision....

snapshotserengeti.org — Hundreds of camera traps in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, are providing a powerful new window into the dynamics of Africa’s most elusive wildlife species. We need your help to classify all the different animals caught in millions of camera trap images....

youtu.be — "The Revelation of the Pyramids" takes an in depth look into one of the seven wonders of the world, the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Mystery has surrounded these epic structures for centuries with theories varying from the scientific to the bizarre....

news.cnet.com — Four enterprising young African girls put together a generator that runs on a plentiful natural resource. Whether or not it could work efficiently is a different story....

redorbit.com — Ethiopian wolf populations are genetically fragmenting, scientists say. This is cause for concern because the Ethiopian wolf is the world’s rarest canine and fewer than 500 of Africa’s only wolf species remain in the wild, according to BBC News....

phys.org — A team of elephant researchers from Stanford University has transformed a remote corner of southern Africa into a high-tech field camp run entirely on sunlight. The seasonal solar-powered research camp gives scientists a rare opportunity to quietly observe, videotape and photograph wild elephants at Mushara waterhole, an isolated oasis in Etosha National Park in Namibia....

blogs.smithsonianmag.com — Like salamanders, newts and other amphibians, the African spiny mouse can regrow toetips, seal holes in its ears, and regenerate missing skin, bone muscles and nerves without any trace of scar tissue, making it a stand-out example among mammals....

bdlive.co.za — A NEW dinosaur the size of a house cat and described as a cross between "a bird, a vampire and a porcupine" has been identified in a piece of rock from South Africa....