Stung by media reports on the dire conditions in Kabul’s ruined zoo, keepers around the world launched a fund drive to support what is left of the animal park in Afghanistan’s battered capital
Scientists say they can genetically modify whole mosquito populations so that the flies are either susceptible to pesticides, or can’t transmit the malaria parasite. And they would only need to release relatively few GM mosquitoes to kick-start the process
The annual pre-xmas swine slaughter in a south-western Hungarian village came to a shocking end on Saturday after one man died of electrocution while trying to stun a pig, whose owner then died of heart attack
The much-loved but endangered water vole could soon be safe across much of London
A Florida man died after a duck hit him in the head, knocking him off a personal watercraft and into a lake
Hundreds of beetles will today set about attacking blue heliotrope, a major weed of Australian pastures and crops
For over 30 years, John Wamsley has been striving to save Australia’s indigenous wildlife. But his methods, which involve fencing off large areas of land and eradicating all alien species such as foxes and rabbits, have made him extremely unpopular. He has received several death threats and spent time in prison
A homeless boy who shocked Chile in June when he was found living with a pack of dogs has run away from a children’s home where he was being looked after
A report, produced by Brazil’s National Network Against the Trafficking of Wild Animals, estimated that local traffickers of endangered animals earn about $1 billion a year, causing untold losses to the country’s natural habitat
The largest complete fossil of a cockroach has been found in the United States. The insect, about the size of a mouse, lived 55 million years before the first dinosaurs walked the planet
Fans of the Loch Ness monster who hope to catch a glimpse of the legendary creature could be in luck thanks to a moving Webcam now filming the murky depths of the Scottish lake
A clash of the mammoths could have taken place in what is now southern England thousands of years ago. Fossils found in Buckinghamshire and Norfolk suggest that two types of mammoth lived side-by-side in prehistoric times. Scientists believe herds of more advanced mammoths moving south from Siberia encountered primitive European ones
A new Backyard Bugs Guide will familiarise young Australians with the insects in their backyard
Scientists have released new details of a giant super-crocodile which lived around 110 million years ago and grew to the length of a bus. Sarchosuchus imperator specimens were first discovered in the Ténéré Desert in Niger in 1964, but new finds in the Sahara have made it possible to form a clearer picture of the giants
Some people want to introduce elephants, camels and other large African beasts into the US — and not in zoos, but roaming free in vast parks. Why? To replace the megafauna supposedly killed off by the first humans to enter the New World. The popular overkill theory took a hefty knock today with evidence it wasn’t humans but climate change which caused the extinctions
Scientists have puzzled for years how insects manage to fly. The bumble bee, for instance, has the aerodynamics of a tiny brick and it has been theoretically proved several times it’s impossible for it to fly. Now we’ve found out the secret of insect flight — it’s all to do with complex tiny air vortices produced from their wings
Trained to kill, the dolphin Diana has found a new vocation — helping autistic children to break out of their shell. Born 28 years ago, Diana was raised by her Soviet masters to serve as a weapon in the Cold War. Families from Russia, Poland and Turkey have brought their troubled children to this southern Ukrainian port to benefit from the strange psychic qualities displayed by Diana and a dozen or so of her fellow aquatic mammals
Imagine getting shot by your best friend. But the triggerman in one case was a dog. Authorities in Douglas County, Washington, said that goose hunter Michael Boyle was shot in the leg when a dog stepped on the trigger of a 12-gauge shotgun
South Africa is carrying out the greatest transfer of wildlife the world has seen in 50 years to create the world’s greatest game park. It is transferring 1000 elephants from the famed Kruger National Park into neighbouring Mozambique under a project to create a 35000 sq km trans-frontier wildlife park
A mother bear appears to have cared for a missing 16-month-old Iranian toddler who was found safe and sound three days later in the animal’s den
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