​A new 'pearl white' freshwater crab species has been discovered in the 'forgotten' Eastern Cape forests of South Africa.

Prof Savel Daniels, a molecular...

A precious collection of the original botanical illustrations prepared for printing between 1912 and 1932 in Rudolf Marloth's Flora of South Africa, has now...

​​​​The Ingcungcu Sunbird Restoration Initiative

The Ingcungcu Initiative, named after the Xhosa word for “birds with long beaks", aims to re-open a migration...

At only five grams a newly-discovered dwarf bat from Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique has now become Africa's smallest horseshoe bat.

According to an...

The Royal Society of South Africa (RSSAf) has honoured two Stellenbosch University (SU) scientists, Prof Bert Klumperman and Prof Guy Midgley, with the highest...

The Sharksafe Barrier™ – a cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative to conventional anti-shark devices developed by researchers from...

A major effort is underway to conserve the last remaining 60 individual paintbrush lilies (Haemanthus pumilio) in the Duthie Nature Reserve in Stellenbosch, as...

The lack of a standardized procedure for collecting data about elusive and hard to find species like the great white shark has to date seriously hampered...

A BSc honours student from Stellenbosch University not only rediscovered a plant species that was last seen in 1928, and presumed to be extinct, but will also...

New research published in Science today shows that climate-change impacts have already impacted every aspect of life on Earth from genes to entire ecosystems...