A horrified backpacker was rushed to hospital after a scorpion that had hitched a lift in his luggage stung him as he relaxed back at home on his sofa. The…
The two young brothers who were found after 27 days alone in the Amazon rainforest survived off berries and rainwater. Siblings Glaucon and Gleison, aged 7 and 9 respectively, were…
These photos show incredible, intact stone-carved theatre masks representing comedy and tragedy that have been unearthed in the ancient theatre of a 2,500-year-old city. Excavations in the ancient city of…
Researchers in Chile have discovered fossils of frogs and toads from over 70 million years ago that walked alongside dinosaurs and are almost identical to species of frogs found in…
This beautiful speckled white moth is of a previously unknown population that has survived isolated hundreds of miles from any similar moths since the last ice age, 12,000 years ago,…
An Israeli court has put a temporary freeze on plans to return the six-year-old sole survivor of the Stresa-Mottarone cable car crash to his aunt in Italy. Eitan Biran survived…
This badly burnt cat called Magma has had its whiskers frazzled and paws charred after it spent weeks wandering the Spanish island of La Palma under a volcanic ash cloud…
A new study has found that all living snakes evolved from just a handful of species that survived the mass extinction event 66-million-years ago caused by a giant asteroid impact…
Archaeologists have discovered wicker baskets filled with fruit and Greek ceramic artefacts that have survived for over 2400 years in the sunken ruins of the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion off…
A baby fawn that survived the wildfires in Sardinia has become a symbol of local determination to overcome the devastation caused by the blaze. Given the name Lussurzesa, the young…