This two-week-old baby ring-tailed lemur tried to get to grips with its new life as a zoo celebrity. But as it faced the limelight for the first time at Austria's…
A mysterious mechanical device made more than 2,000 years ago to track the movements of heavenly bodies that was so complex it was believed to have been a fake was…
A Chinese zoo has defended itself over footage of visitors flocking to scratch the head of a tiger cub believing it would bring them good luck. The video that went…
These images show a greedy cormorant rescued by vets after it tried to swallow two large fish at once that were almost the same size as it was. The fish…
A famous British zoo expert has declared Vienna Zoo the best in Europe for the sixth time. British zoo expert Anthony Sheridan has voted Schoenbrunn Zoo, the self-proclaimed world's oldest…
A new study that involved an expert from the University of Cambridge has uncovered that hedgehogs harboured antibiotic-resistant bacteria - widely regarded these days as 'hospital germs' - 100 years…
An expert is set to decide if Austrian basement dungeon mastermind Joseph Fritz, who fathered seven children with his captive daughter, should walk free. Fritzl is currently serving a life…
A team of five experts is currently attempting to determine if what looks like a rusty trike that was found in a garage in Germany is in fact the world's…
The two lions that escaped from their container at a Singaporean airport over the weekend have both recovered from the effects of being shot with tranquiliser darts and are currently…
Two lions have escaped from a transport container at Singapore airport leading to a stand-off with staff. One of the lions was reportedly seen lying on top of the container…