Flora and fauna

Feline family ties proved essential at a zoo in Japan recently after a newly born white tiger cub fell in to a pool of water, and had to get his ...

Stunning images have surfaced of an elusive albino dolphin that can change colour from white to pink when it's emotional. The rare mammal has ...

Meteorologists and biologists have been left baffled by earthworms raining from the sky over Southern Norway. According to Norwegian ...

The Orton Fells, located to the east of Lake District, in Cumbria County, in England, is an area of remarkable geology. This vast area bounded ...

The world's smallest orchid flower has been identified by a botanist in Brazil, measuring just half a millimetre. The tiny bloom was ...

Amazing images of a typhoon heading for the Philippines have been snapped from orbit by two astronauts. Typhoon Maysak was initially a top-rated ...

This is the heart-wrenching moment a mother elephant desperately tried to pull her baby from a well after, staying by their side for 11 ...

In 1964, Donal Rusk Currey killed the oldest tree ever. To this day, there has still never been an older tree discovered. The tree was a Great Basin ...

Photographer Guy Tal captures glimpses of color in the harsh terrain of the American West. “On rare years, wildflowers burst into stunning ...

Four pilot whales from yesterday's mass stranding have made it out safely to deeper waters, and spotter planes have not found any other animals in ...

The Hang Son Doong cave in Vietnam is so massive the Empire State Building could fit inside. It's about 3 miles long and 660 feet at its deepest ...

A crocodile and three hungry lions have spotted the carcass of a dead elephant at exactly the same time. At first, there appears to be a ...

Hundreds of sinkholes are forming each year around the drying Dead Sea that could face being completely parched by 2050. Its basin shrinks by a ...

Sure, polar bears like the ones you see on those Coca-Cola commercials during the holidays are adorable. However, in real life they can be pretty ...

Rivers under the sea can really exist! The ocean has many secrets, and underwater rivers are one them. Scientists have discovered a massive ...

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Russian scientists have now discovered seven giant craters in remote Siberia, a geologist told AFP on Thursday, adding that the mysterious ...

Beautiful images have emerged of a new island that has formed off the coast of Tonga - although scientists say it could soon disappear. The ...

The editors of Smithsonian magazine have just announced the finalists in their 12th annual photo contest, selected from more than 26,500 entries. ...

Incredible video of an action-filled battle between a black mamba snake and a chameleon. Taken in the Kruger National Park in South Africa.

Gathered in their hundreds, spectators crowd round to watch as two dogs are forced to fight to the death in barbaric cages. These shocking scenes ...

It was all’s well that ends well for this young elephant after it fell into a mud pit in Kenya.After wallowing in the dank ditch for up to 12 ...

Nearly 700 koalas bears were killed off by Australian wildlife authorities in a secret programme to avoid the anger of conservationists, it was ...

A rare sea creature described as an "alien of the deep" has been found off Australia and delivered to a museum which Tuesday showed off its fleshy ...

Elusive creatures known mainly for their eight arms, ink blast, and high intelligence, octopuses are also fearsome predators with a variety of ...

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a dog? These pictures sum it up perfectly.

Many say that the animals can not express their feelings like humans. But these pictures prove otherwise. This review presents the most heartwarming ...

An amateur photographer was walking along the water with his family when he captured a ten-minute sea battle between a seal and its latest ...

Opinions vary as to who or what was responsible for forming trail-marker trees-those old trees with very distinctive shapes that seem to point out ...

The U.S. government is planning to kill about 11,000 double-crested cormorants over the next few years in order to protect salmon and steelhead ...