A bungling zoo in Japan has admitted that it has wrongly identified a female lion cub for a male for nearly two years. Sapporo's Maruyama Zoo said it became suspicious…
This is the Darwin moment when a zoo gorilla seems to have evolved to walk so perfectly upright that it could be mistaken for its keeper. The great ape -…
An 18-month-old boy died in agony after drinking a glass of acid his mum had been using to clean the toilet. Victim Muhammet Ala had apparently mistaken the clear liquid…
A new collection of extremely rare colour portraits of ancient Egyptian mummies have been discovered painted on the newly discovered 2,000-year-old caskets of their owners. The paintings are said to…
A school field trip to a small town outside of Tel Aviv has led to the discovery of a 3000-year-old scarab seal that was picked up off the ground after…
An hours-old baby girl was saved from a stack of rubbish bags about to be collected by bin men after a passing cyclist thought she heard the faint cries of…
A baby wallaby has escaped from a Lincolnshire petting farm and was last seen hopping towards woodland near the village of Lound. The seven-month-old joey, called Ant, went missing from…
Police in Berlin have been looking for this missing teenage girl for months using these two extremely different photographs. The first photograph, which police in the German capital Berlin have…
A cute newborn kitten found trapped in the undercarriage of a lorry was taken to a wild animal rehabilitation centre after being mistakenly identified as an ocelot. Although not regarded…