A starved dog called Scooby who was neglected for so long that his fur became long and hard and who had maggots eating into his flesh has been adopted after…
A popular resort has had to close after 30 attacks on tourists by an Amazonian piranha-like fish. Fish attacks on bathers led Imasul (Mato Grosso do Sul Environmental Institute) to…
A Brazilian nun who was the world's oldest living person has died at the age of 116, making a British woman the new record holder. Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas passed…
A man sued by his pet dog over a vicious beating has been ordered to pay the pup GBP 650 compensation for the severe distress he caused it. Accused Abynner…
A farmer has told of his shock after a mutant two-headed calf was born to one of his cows. The incident took place in Sao Miguel do Guapore, in the…
The world's oldest ant fossil preserved within a 113-million-year-old lump of limestone has been unearthed in a long-forgotten museum collection. Biologists at Sao Paulo University's Zoology Museum have revealed what…
Whitey moment a rare albino stingray appears in the middle of a huge shoal of the fish swimming in the ocean. The rare sighting was spotted by marine life photographer…
A baffled angler filmed the moment he caught a bizarre blob-shaped fish while fishing on a remote island as he struggled to figure out what exactly he had just pulled…
A tortoise has been rescued after it was apparently stuck under a floor for nearly 10 years and it is believed that it survived thanks to its slow metabolism. The…
This eerie premonitory painting of a flood was created by an artist who died when floodwaters invaded his home a few years later. Named 'The Flood', the piece was painted…