Researchers believe they may have worked out why giant trevally swim upstream in the Mtentu Estuary and circle in vast ...

Tourists on the Wild Coast of South Africa have been stopping in their tracks at the sight of hundreds of huge silver fish ...

Africa’s freshwater fish are disappearing at alarming rates, with a new report from the World Wide Fund for Nature warning that over a quarter of species face extinction. On Lake Victoria, the ...

Variations of coconut fish curry abound up and down the Swahili Coast, so much so that the dish is often broadly referred to ...

In the offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico, resides one of the coolest, most prehistoric-looking fish. It happens to be one of the best to eat but also one of the most elusive. Found around the ...

In a new study published in Kidney International, researchers report that drugs known as SGLT2 inhibitors prevented ...

Africa is the only continent with large, natural tropical lakes, and boasts around 1.3 million square kilometers of freshwater resources, including lakes, rivers, reservoirs, floodplains and swamps.

That African countries trade too little with each other is a well-worn gripe among the continent’s policymakers. Officially, just 15% of the continent’s trade is internal. The need to overcome this ...

Banding together to sell fishing rights could generate economic benefits for African countries, which receive far less from access to their fisheries on the global market than other countries do from ...

An illustration of Late Devonian animals swimming in the water. About 350 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs stalked the planet, a gigantic fish with deadly fangs hunted river waters on the ...