City officials in India have hired a team of animal impersonators to frighten marauding macaque monkeys away from G20 summit venues. The so-called 'monkey wallahs' can impersonate the wailing calls…
Young black bears get to grips with the fighting skills they will need for real when they grow up. The pair were caught on a wildlife camera playfighting in woodlands…
A dog that went missing with her retired banker owner has returned home almost three months after they both disappeared during a walk, his British wife has revealed. Economist Korhan…
These pictures show the skeleton of a religious leader in a tomb where he had been laid to rest some 3,000 years ago in what is now northern Peru. Local…
A previously unknown fossilised snail species has been discovered by archaeologists working on a railway construction site in Florida, and they have named it Carychium floridanum in honour of the…
A fossil believed to be a previously unknown species of snake with a well-preserved trachea has been discovered at a disused quarry in Germany. The Messel Pit which is near…
A single two-kilogramme block of one of the world's rarest cheeses has gone under the hammer for an astonishing world record-breaking EUR 30,000. The blue cheese can only be made…
A scrap of papyrus left on a museum shelf for a hundred years has been found to be a page from what experts say is the oldest book ever written…
Melting permafrost is yielding a bumper crop of mammoth tusks known as "ice ivory" which are being looted by treasure hunters in order to sell them abroad. At first glance,…
A toothless Russian tiger that had switched to eating pet dogs and attacked a policeman who was following its tracks has been caught. The police officer was pounced on by…