A team of scientists has discovered what they say is the first evidence in the world – dating back 47 million years – of a snake giving birth to its young. Most reptiles are oviparous, which means that they are hatched from fertilised eggs. But other reptiles are viviparous, which…
Two new species of deadly venomous snake have been discovered in Colombia by a team of international scientists. They have been named as Bothrocophias myrringae and Bothrocophias tulitoi, two new types of toadheaded pitviper. The snakes' venom is said to be so powerful it can kill a man. Newsflash obtained…
Scientists have discovered a tiny ancient snail that could have used hairs sprouting out of its shell to help it find mates. The creature was found in a 99 million-year-old piece of amber studied by the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research in Frankfurt, Germany. They found the snail's shell was…
Wildlife experts have used Halloween pumpkins to reveal the real-life horror of animal extinction. New figures show that 20 per cent of all animal species are under threat of dying out, says International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). https://youtu.be/DUajFpWClG8 Tiergarten Schonbrunn/Newsflash Working with Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo in Austria, they…
Over 140 NGOs have demanded EU politicians come up with strong laws to stop deforestation and the destruction of nature. They said the law is needed urgently and they want "soy, oil palm, beef, timber and coffee, corn, natural rubber, pigs, sheep, goats and poultry" to be listed in the…
Researchers have discovered a new species of titi monkey in a Peruvian nature reserve in the Amazon. The species was named the Aquino stump-tailed monkey (Cheracebus aquinoi) in honour of Rolando Aquino, a prestigious Peruvian primatologist and professor at the National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru. It was…
In a series of cute videos, two newborn jaguar cubs frolic and play after nuzzling up to each other while suckling from their mother. Proud jaguar mum Mbarete can be seen giving her two adorable cubs a few wide-tongued licks after they were born in El Impenetrable National Park in…
This extraordinary footage shows dozens of lightning strikes sweeping over the Grand Canyon as an unforgettable monsoon sunset spills over the horizon. This footage obtained by Newsflash from the National Park Service (NPS) offers a peek into one of nature's most unusual wonders: the sun setting while a thunderstorm moves…
These images show a male koala joining other members of its species at a zoo in Switzerland that include a female, with the cute animal apparently wasting no time to call out to its potential mate Maisy. The randy koala can be seen being released into its new surroundings, before…
Possessed zombie wasps with fungus stalks coming out of their brains have been found by wildlife experts in the US. The parasitical fungus - which locks a victim's jaws around a twig -takes over the movements of the wasp until it has devoured them from the inside. A zombie wasp…