A woman who hanged a pet dog to death has been jailed for three years by judges in Ecuador. Prosecutors in the city of Quito told how Spayk the Siberian…
Crooks who hacked wood from a 2,600-year-old sacred tree to sell as lucky charms have been jailed by a court in China. The 11 accused - imprisoned for up to…
These images show how the devastating double earthquake in Turkey split an 80-year-old olive tree clean down the middle. The tree's two halves were left standing 15 metres (16 yards)…
Mexico's President has been mocked for sharing a snap said to show a traditional pixie-like spirit perched in a tree. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, 69, used social media to…
Rhinoceros living in a Danish zoo uses a thick tree branch as his own personal nail file to buff up his horn. The 13-year-old white male rhino - originally born…
Endangered African elephants at the world's oldest zoo were thrilled to receive a belated Xmas present when a huge tree was delivered for them to nibble on and play with.…
A man drowned after he jumped into a reservoir to escape a swarm of thousands of highly-aggressive killer bees after trying to tie his canoe to a tree where they…
This is the moment when a tiny newborn sloth snuggles into its mum's fur at a zoo in Germany. The after-dark footage was filmed in Leipzig Zoo, Saxony and shows…
Baffled firefighters in Colorado had to use a hydraulic platform to rescue a bear that had somehow got stuck in a 50-foot-high treetop. The bear had been hanging around suburban…
These images show a male koala joining other members of its species at a zoo in Switzerland that include a female, with the cute animal apparently wasting no time to…