This is the heart-lifting moment when a firefighter gives much-needed water to a parched deer after it was saved from a wildfire. Nearly 36,000 hectares of land have been destroyed by fires in the town of Losacio in the Spanish region of Castile and Leon, displacing thousands of wild animals…
This is the moment an adorable ocelot cub gets to grips with the climbing skills it will need when it grows up. The weeks-old youngster was filmed by keepers as it explored its rainforest-like enclosure called Gondwana Land at Leipzig Zoo, Germany. Proud mum Daphne, 14, leads her newborn around…
German and US researchers have discovered two incredible snails - one of which is smaller than a grain of sand and believed to be the world's tiniest land snail, and the second is also a small snail that decorates its shell with tiny pieces of faeces. The presumed smallest species…
The Mexican authorities have removed 30 bags of human remains from clandestine graves in two vacant plots of land. The human remains were found on two vacant plots of around 50 metres by 15 metres in the neighbourhood of Zalatitan in the city of Tonala in the Mexican state of…
NASA has announced that next year it will deliver an ice-mining machine connected to a robotic lander to the Moon in the first-ever attempt to find and extract resources from the lunar surface. According to NASA, the development of space-mining technology will be critical in establishing a robust and long-term…
Researchers have developed the technology for underwater seaweed farms that can be grown in estuaries and effectively filter out pollutants that runoff from agricultural land before they reach the sea and destroy ecosystems. A two-year-long study by Tel Aviv University and the University of California, Berkeley developed and then created…
Only 211 rare Pink Land Iguanas only found on a remote Galapagos volcanic island are left alive according to scientists monitoring the population, and even more worryingly, no juveniles were found as many of them are either eaten by rats before they hatch, or are hunted down while they are…
Researchers in Egypt have found the fossilised remains of a ferocious 43 million-year-old four-legged whale which had a mouth like a crocodile and is believed to have dominated both land and sea - earning itself the name 'Phiomicetus anubis' after the Egyptian God of Death. The discovery was made by…
A farmer digging a hole in order to build a greenhouse has found an almost complete skeleton of a prehistoric Indricotherium, the ancestor of the rhino that was bigger than an elephant and recorded as the largest land mammal ever to have walked the earth. The discovery was made in…
This ocelot badly burned on all four of its feet during a forest fire reportedly started by Brazilian farmers to gain more pasture land has had to be put to sleep. The ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) was rescued from the banks of Pixaim River in the municipality of Pocone in the…