Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as “dassies”, are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no discernible ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

The Vilas Zoo has two new residents, a pair of toothy rock hyraxes. Frenchie and Rizzo, both females, came to Madison from the San Antonio Zoological Gardens and Aquarium to join the zoo’s male hyrax, ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The Henry Vilas Zoo introduced two new residents on Friday. Frenchie and Rizzo, both female rock hyraxes, come to Madison from the San Antonio Zoological Gardens and Aquarium.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There’s a new potato on the block! Rock hyrax mom, Idaho, and dad, Perseus, became parents on July 28 to a healthy baby boy called Cappy, the Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium announced on ...