Three giraffes have died after escaping from a cramped quarantine centre where they were forced to live among their own faeces after arriving in Brazil from South Africa. Animal rights…
The dog that bit off and swallowed a man's big toe after he tried to kick it for begging for a slice of pizza faces being put down. The victim,…
This orangutan called Toto has died just a few weeks before his 30th birthday at a zoo in Mexico after a period of depression. The sad death took place at…
This video montage shows the moment a panda mum gives birth to one of her two pink cubs before they become cute fluffy pandas weeks later. The two cubs were…
Thousands of the most powerful type of volcanic eruptions classified as so called "super-eruptions" occurred on Mars during an extremely volatile 500-million-year period in the history of the red planet…
This intact 3,000-year-old golden mask has been unearthed from an ancient sacrifice pit and measuring nearly 40 centimetres wide, it could be the largest golden mask and the heaviest gold…
This is the moment Chinese customs officials find two incredibly beautiful paleontological fossils from the Late Cretaceous period in the post. The incident was filmed at Hangzhou International Airport in…
This is the moment Russian conservationists return five seals to their natural habitat following a period of recovery at a rescue centre. The five ringed seals (Pusa hispida) were released…
Experts have unearthed 73 fossilised dinosaur eggs on a university campus from a species that was an ancestor of today's birds from the Cretaceous period 85 million years ago. The…
A brief period in which there were elevated global temperatures over 50 million years ago is showing that fish nevertheless managed to flourish. Researchers made the claims in a paper…