Three four-month-old orphaned lion cubs found in a suitcase in war-torn Ukraine have been sent to start a new life at a wildlife sanctuary in the USA. The cubs had been found packed into a case at Odessa station and were probably due to be sold, experts believe. https://youtu.be/v5zdI9c9sKo IFAW/Newsflash…
A 97-year-old former SS Nazi death camp secretary has been urged by victims' lawyers to break her silence about the 11,412 murders she is accused of helping to carry out. Irmgard Furchner, 97, has not uttered a single word during the 14-month trial in Itzehoe, Germany, where she has been…
These tools used by an extinct ancestor of modern-day humans and found in a cave in Poland have been dated back half a million years. The impressive discovery was made at the Tunel Wielki cave in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in south-eastern Poland, with experts saying that the discovery challenges…
Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient 'fridge' that still contained food leftovers in a former Roman military camp in Bulgaria. The object, built from ceramic plates, was found in the Novae archaeological site located about four kilometres (2.5 miles) east of the town of Svishtov, Bulgaria. Image shows an altar with…
Astonished scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of ant after scanning a 20-million-year-old block of amber. Researchers in Germany, France and Poland made the remarkable find after using micro-computed tomography to scan a block of amber from Africa dating to the early Miocene. The remarkably preserved specimen they found…
These shocking images show starving cows on a horror farm in Poland that were found living in their own faeces along with the decaying carcasses of other bovines that had drowned in the sea of poo. The footage was reportedly filmed at a farm – described as a "concentration camp…
Environmental experts have warned of a poisoning disaster after thousands of dead fish were found in a Polish river. Shocking images of fish floating on the surface of the Oder River have triggered an investigation into the cause of the wildlife disaster. The Provincial Environmental Protection Inspectorate in the city…
A quarry where Steven Spielberg filmed Schindler's List is set to be turned into a nature reserve after being saved from developers. The Liban Quarry, located in the southern Polish city of Krakow, was at risk from plans to hand most of the site to property developers to turn it…
The charred remains of 8,000 victims of a Nazi World War II death camp have been unearthed in woodlands in northern Poland. Experts say 17.5 tonnes of human ashes have been found buried near the notorious Soldau concentration camp in what was then East Prussia. The finding - in Ilowo-Osada…
An anti-aircraft missile dating back to World War II has been found near Krakow leading to the evacuation of over 450 people. The device, weighing 50 kilogrammes (110 lbs), was found during construction work in the heart of the town of Wieliczka, which is located near Krakow, in southern Poland,…