
Giant Diamond Goes For GBP 25 Million Because Of Lucky Weight
An exceptionally rare giant pink diamond has been sold for GBP 25 million it is believed because its unique weight is a double lucky number in China. The 18-carat pear-shaped…
An exceptionally rare giant pink diamond has been sold for GBP 25 million it is believed because its unique weight is a double lucky number in China. The 18-carat pear-shaped…
A new pond has been set up at Vienna Zoo's Indian rhino enclosure - to the great delight of its horned inhabitants. The Viennese zoo is home to Sundari and…
Humans and elephants are the only mammals to combine their mouths and their noses to create sounds, a new study has revealed. Cognitive biologists Veronika Beeck and Angela Stoger-Horwath and…
The secret tomb of an ancient Egyptian general who ran an army of foreign mercenaries has been unearthed by archaeologists. Egyptian military official Wahibre-mery-Neith was in charge of recruiting soldiers…
A superwasp able to produce 1,000 offspring is threatening vast forests in North America's, a new study has revealed. The Sirex woodwasp lays its eggs on pine trees in a…
Customs officers found nearly 1,000 endangered seahorses being smuggled through an airport to be used as 'natural viagra' by bogus healers. The dried seahorses had been stashed in a freight…
The Black Death was only possible because human civilisation had become advanced enough to allow rats to survive and flourish, according to the first study of the ancient genes of…
Boffins in China have unearthed an extremely rare giant panda fossil dating back over 100,000 years. Researchers from the Guizhou Institute of Mountain Resources of the Guizhou Academy of Sciences…
This adorable and endangered Malayan Tapir cub has died just a week after a German zoo celebrated its birth. The adorable male Malayan tapir (Acrocodia indica) cub was born at…
This is the moment a newborn endangered Malayan tapir cub nervously observes its enclosure while sticking close to its mum. Zookeepers at Leipzig Zoo in Germany said mum Laila gave…