AUSTIN — The deaths are still being counted, but last week's extreme winter weather in Texas left yet another group of victims in its wake: exotic animals. Days of freezing temperatures kept the state ...

Wildebeests, also known as gnu, have a lot to watch out for as they graze across the African savannah. Wildebeest are part of the diet of both lions and spotted hyenas. To protect themselves, they ...

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Massive migrations of wildebeests have fallen in recent years, casualties of human-built fences, roads and cities. Now, analysis of the magnificent animals’ genomes reveals that those barriers are ...

Just north of the great Serengeti wildebeest migration, a smaller migration across the Mara ecosystem is collapsing. New maps published in the Atlas of Ungulate Migration reveal the dramatic impact of ...

Conservation geneticists are concerned that while it managed to survive hunters and disease in the 19th century, the black wildebeest will be hybridised out of existence by its burlier cousin, the ...