Two tiny round-eared elephant shrew babies have finally gone on show to the public after their cautious parents hid them from zookeepers for days. The babies - no bigger than…
City officials have felled more than 100 trees so that a colony of lizards can get enough sun, it has emerged. The lizards - common wall lizards, or Podarcis muralis…
Suspected poachers caused outrage after photographs emerged of them posing with the carcass of a jaguar they had apparently killed minutes earlier. The incident took place in Jujuy Province, north-western…
A melting Swiss glacier has revealed a human skeleton that could be the remains of a missing German billionaire who went out on a hike and never came back. Karl-Erivan…
The incredible diversity in the deepest levels of the oceans is being threatened with extinction by micro-plastics, a new study has revealed. The shock findings emerged after scientists studied the…
Giant alligators have been released into the Rio Grande to deter illegal migrants from crossing the border river to the US, reports Mexican media. The scare emerged after US Border…
A wild dog tossed a five-year-old girl around like a doll in a terrifying attack in the lobby of her apartment building. Little Elvan Bayar had been playing with friends…
A tiny sharp-toothed rodent that roamed the earth 220 million years ago has emerged as a missing ancestor of today's mammals. The rat-like creature - called a cynodont after its…
A tiny jaguar cub sealed in a box by suspected wildlife traffickers has been rescued by airport staff. The cute male cub - just three months old - emerged blinking…
The Russian man who kept a house of horrors with 26 bodies of dead little girls that he had dug up and mummified has been denied a bid for freedom…