The port of the British overseas territory of Gibraltar has been shut down after an oil spill triggered an environmental alert. Environmentalists warn of a "toxic cloud" covering the Strait…
The fossilised remains of a new species that is a 70-million-year-old dinosaur-age relative of the modern-day platypus have been discovered in Patagonia. The researchers who made the discovery said that…
Archaeologists in Mexico made an astonishing discovery when they unearthed a total of 21 human remains in a medieval cemetery. The skeletons, some of which are almost perfectly preserved, were…
This is the moment a kingfisher that probably landed on a metal railing with wet feet and got frozen to the metal was freed by a passing jogger. The tiny…
This is the moment an adorable ocelot cub gets to grips with the climbing skills it will need when it grows up. The weeks-old youngster was filmed by keepers as…
A brave woman who refused to accept that she had to speak Italian when Austria lost South Tyrol to the fascists after the First World War has said she wants…
These snaps taken recently and in the late 1800s show Jonathan the giant tortoise, who turns 190 this year and is believed to be the oldest tortoise to ever live.…
This male jaguar has been released in an Argentine province where it has been extinct for 70 years as part of a programme to reintroduce the species into the wild.…
A team of archaeologists has discovered a decapitated horse next to its rider, as well as a trove of jewellery and weapons, in a cemetery where elite Merovingian nobles and…
Scarface the lion that had his own Facebook page and starred in many documentaries has died of natural causes at 14 years of age, leaving his 400 square-mile territory up…