Dozens of rare penguins have been killed by a swarm of bees in South Africa, in what conservation experts have described as a freak accident. More than 60 African penguins were found dead on Boulders ...

More than 60 endangered African penguins were recently found dead, all with multiple bee stings and no other external injuries, according to officials in a coastal city in South Africa where the birds ...

Heads up, Florida. Along with alligators, Burmese pythons and Asian needle ants, now killer bees are spreading across the state — and the country — as average temperatures rise. Africanized honey bees ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Dozens of endangered African penguins were apparently killed by a swarm of bees in South Africa on Friday. The 63 penguins were found dead on Friday at a colony in Simonstown, near Cape Town, ...

“Getting the bugs out” is standard procedure whenever anything as complex as a new airplane is delivered. The trouble with Central African Airways’ brand-new Vickers Viscount propjet was that the bugs ...

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 ...

Dead bees were found near where the birds died at a park in South Africa, said officials, who suggested the bees may have become aggressive after their nest was disturbed. By Azi Paybarah More than 60 ...