A vet has been seized by police accused of illegally trimming and cutting the crests of more than 4,000 fighting roosters in Spain. The 59-year-old animal medic from Valencia - whose identity has not been disclosed by local media - was accused of document forgery and continued animal abuse. https://youtu.be/R5RhDjwaU6I…
Huge bull elk with enormous antlers being rescued after it became tangled in wire fencing. The footage shows officers from Colorado Parks and Wildlife cutting the wire fencing away from the giant elk's massive antlers. The Wildlife Officers said in a statement obtained by Newsflash on Tuesday, 13th September, that…
This is the heartbreaking moment a sea lion is rescued from a beach after being found with a fisherman's net cutting deep into its flesh. Horrifying footage of the sea mammal's injuries show how the thin nylon strands have cut deep into its skin causing agonising gaping wounds. Animal rescuers…
Two brothers aged 6 and 8 who disappeared nearly a month ago after going into the Amazon rainforest to hunt birds have been found alive despite being all skin and bones. Photographs of the children show them looking extremely thin and emaciated. The two brothers have been named as Gleson…
Doctors have performed a rare, cutting-edge stem cell transplant surgery on a baby boy who was born prematurely and weighing only 495 grammes to help him develop his tiny lungs. A doctor at the hospital said that the procedure was "one of the few transplants [of its kind] in the…
This viral video shows a fallen tree leaning on a 110,000-volt power line, with the electricity coursing through it and making it look like a lightning bolt repeatedly striking the ground. The incident took place in a forested area between the municipalities of Frankendorf and Kapellendorf in the central German…
Chinese zookeepers have discovered that this chubby wild cat has been snacking on frogs and rodents between meals after it arrived overweight and was put on a diet a year ago that yielded little results. https://youtu.be/fSMKXLCgY4g Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo/AsiaWire The serval, a wild cat native to Africa, arrived at…
From just the fragment of a 70,000-year-old neanderthal's skull found off the coast of Holland, experts have reconstructed the ancient human ancestors face and even given him a smile. In 2009 a 10 by 6 centimetres (3.9x2.3 inch) fragment of the skull of the first Neanderthal in the Netherlands was…
A world-leading conservation group have developed cutting edge coral breeding technology that offers hope of saving the worlds coral reefs which are being decimated by pollution and climate change. SECORE International develops techniques that use sexually bred corals for sustainable, biodiverse coral restoration on larger scales, using biological and engineering…
A 40-year-old woman has died after getting dragged into a cutting machine at a packaging plant in Italy. The victim, named as Laila El Harim, originally from Morocco, was reportedly operating a die-cutting machine at the Bombonette packaging plant in the town of Camposanto in the northern Italian province of…