A beautiful white kitten that grew up to be a big cat has been identified as the world's first-ever wild albino ocelot. The albino feline that was found as a…
A British research and charity institution has donated its enormous bird specimen collection to one of the leading natural history museums of Central Europe. The Natural History Museum Vienna (NHM)…
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…
German customs officers have seized a protected tortoise skeleton along with its shell that was shipped from Switzerland to Germany as a home decoration. The officials at the Donauwoerth Customs…
This picture shows the extremely rare pregnant albino bat that astounded Brazilian biologists. The specimen is the only pregnant flat-faced fruit-eating bat (Artibeus planirostris) that has ever been photographed in…
A turtle rescued from a fishing net has defecated over 10 different types of plastic. The juvenile green sea turtle was taken to the rescue and rehabilitation centre of the…
A T-rex that once roamed North America is set to return home after a US millionaire paid German palaeontologists to put it back together for him like a giant jigsaw…
Birdwatchers have been astounded by the sighting of Hedwig-like snowy owls, as popularised by the Harry Potter films, in Spain, miles away from their natural habitat in the Arctic tundra.…
This is the moment a fisherman discovers an extremely rare shark egg floating in the Atlantic Ocean. The footage was captured by 43-year-old surfer and fisherman Erivaldo Alves Silva in…
Astonished Korean fishermen have pulled a 32-legged octopus from the ocean. The men caught the many-limbed specimen while fishing off the coast of Goseong County in southern South Korea's South…