Not all flowers are built for bouquets, or our home gardens. Here are some of the ugliest flowers in the world that can be found out in the wilderness.

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These regions all promise silence, solitude and stark minimalist beauty, but they have sharply distinct personalities ...

The Khomas Regional Senior Track and Field Championships were largely dominated by athletes from the University of Namibia ...

Dr Raphaella Hull meets Hugh the Firmoss - one of the "talking plants" in the exhibition Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to let botanic garden visitors chat to 20 plants and get responses.

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred with the Order of Oman by Sultan Haitham bin Tarik this month for his contributions to strengthening bilateral ties between the two countries.

Welwitschia is a 3yo b unknown from Japan trained by Manabu Yamamoto, who is based at . It is sired by the stallion California Chrome out of the dam Bering Mefa'a. Welwitschia has managed to win 6 ...

Discover UNESCO natural wonders across Africa through an ecology-first lens, from fog-fed deserts to flood-pulse deltas.

At first appearance, it is one of nature’s more shambolic efforts, no more than a scruffy, hunched heap of vegetable matter. Several esteemed 19th-century biologists, including Joseph Hooker (then ...

Au cœur des déserts arides du sud de l’Afrique pousse une plante aussi étrange qu’extraordinaire : Welwitschia mirabilis. Véritable relique du passé, cette espèce unique en son genre se trouve ...