A stealthy bruin dubbed the "Ninja Bear", which Japanese farmers say killed more than 30 cows, has been shot dead and served up in a restaurant. The fearsome brown bear,…
Mexican boffins who found an ancient canoe carved from a single tree trunk say it may have been used in rituals symbolising the entrance to the underworld. Underwater archaeologists found…
This adorable footage shows a rare red-bellied lemur clinging to its parents shortly after its birth at a Spanish zoo. The species, whose scientific name is Eulemur rubriventer, is endemic…
These heartwarming images show how two adorable snow leopard cubs explored their surroundings eight weeks after being born at a zoo in Austria. Salzburg Zoo Hellbrunn said in a statement…
A wildlife trafficker caught with a dead baby roo in his luggage with 233 other exotic animals has been seized by police in India. Heartbreaking evidence footage shot by customs…
Medics were baffled when an 84-year-old woman went to hospital with belly pain and they found a 40-year-old mummified foetus in her abdomen. The unnamed woman from Durango, Mexico, had…
These are the first photos of the thousands of cars charred to cinders after the cargo ship transporting them caught fire. The charred hulk of the Fremantle Highway car carrier…
This is the heartbreaking moment when a bull with its horns on fire charges into a wooden obstacle and lands on its back in a daze at a cruel Spanish…
Manmade global warming is causing more and more plant species to migrate to the high Andes and displace rare mountain plants, boffins have revealed. According to a study recently published…
This is the huge mammoth "skull" pulled by divers from the bed of a Belarusian river. The find comes as thawing permafrost in Siberia reveals a treasure trove of ancient…