A mistake by geneticist Warwick Estevam Kerr’s assistant led to “killer bees” wreaking deadly havoc on the Western Hemisphere ...

Apiculturist Warwick Kerr figured he had some perfectly good reasons for bringing 20 African queen bees into his native Brazil nine years ago. Though it is known to be ferocious, the African bee ...

Port Elizabeth, South Africa — A swarm of bees has killed 63 endangered African penguins on a beach outside Cape Town, the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds said on ...

Swarms of bees killed at least 63 endangered penguins in South Africa on a beach outside Cape Town, according to the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds. David Roberts, a ...

One of the more fascinating and beautiful families of birds in Africa is one we don’t see in the Western Hemisphere, Meropidae, the family of Bee-eaters. The name Meropidae is derived from Merops, ...

More than 60 endangered African penguins were apparently killed by a swarm of bees in South Africa last week, in what bird conservationists described as an unusual occurrence. The 63 birds were found ...

Scientists and animal experts were investigating on Friday after the bodies of dozens of penguins, many of them with bee stingers in and around their eyes, were discovered in South Africa. A total of ...