Bored of buying eggs made of chocolate and wrapped in foil with predictable bunny motifs? This Easter in South Africa you could instead spend your cash on an egg that will hatch a live penguin.

Nowadays, Easter egg hunts usually use plastic eggs containing ... Scientists have discovered decorated ostrich eggs in South Africa that date back 65,000 to 55,000 years! In Mesopotamia, early ...

Since the start of the year, a South African conservation group has been incubating over 200 eggs of the endangered African penguin that were previously rescued from two colonies. READ: Previously ...