A powerful hurricane in the eastern Pacific washed away an 11-acre island in the French Frigate Shoals, part of a national monument in the remote northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Approximately a half mile long and 400 feet wide, East Island was the second-largest islet in French Frigate Shoals ―...
Artist Craig Tracy has found a way to give his work added depth, by using naked women as a canvas to create a painting of a tiger.
Craig Tracy worked with three models for 24 hours to create this image of the endangered South China tiger.
He...
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Reuters – Tarantula's confiscated by the U.S.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A German national who shipped hundreds of live tarantulas into the United States through the mail has pleaded guilty to a federal smuggling charge...
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Tiger kills bus driver
A tour bus driver was mauled to death by a tiger at a breeding centre in northeast China this week after he got out of his vehicle to check on a mechanical problem, state media reported on Thursday.
Jin Shijun was attacked by a Siberian tiger and dragged off to a...
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This duck got himself all in a flap after inadvertently straying into the path of a giant Shoebill while heading towards water. But it was all water off a duck’s back for the imposing 4ft tall bird which instead of eating his smaller friend, carefully picked him...