A third elephant has lost its life to the herpes virus within a month at Zoo Zurich. Five-year-old elephant cow Ruwani is the latest animal to die in the zoo’s…
A super-rare Andy Warhols work could become the most expensive 20th century artwork to go under the hammer in a sale of more than 100 paintings from one of the…
These images show how a German farmer got his plough embedded in an unexploded British World War II bomb while working his field. Newsflash obtained the images and a statement…
Turkish cops have seized 102 grammes of highly radioactive Californium from a man trying to sell it on for GBP 380,000. The incident took place in the town of Turgutreis,…
This is the cute penguin that escaped from the Budapest zoo and was caught when it waddled out in front of a patrol car. The Budapest Police Headquarters (Budapesti Rendor…
Prehistoric giant sloths had a chainmail-like armour made of a bone mesh embedded in their skin to stop predators sinking their teeth and claws into them, according to new research.…
Customs officers at Duesseldorf Airport have seized a skinned and roasted protected pangolin that a woman from Ghana was planning to eat. The incident took place at Duesseldorf Airport, which…
A famous British zoo expert has declared Vienna Zoo the best in Europe for the sixth time. British zoo expert Anthony Sheridan has voted Schoenbrunn Zoo, the self-proclaimed world's oldest…
A Swiss zoo has opened a new conservation centre for threatened bird species. The zoo in Zurich in northern Switzerland said in a statement that it is "stepping up its…
Experts have studied a rare African parchment in their search for clues about the evolution of writing, which they say has evolved "to become simpler and more efficient". The Max…