wildlife

Maybe he’s really looking forward to life as a frog or perhaps he just likes posing for the camera – but this tadpole obviously has a reason to smile in a photo taken by photographer David Spears. The 1cm (0.4in) tadpole was captured with a ‘grin’ on his face after being placed under a...

Police investigating complaints about a man’s noisy pets found two adult lions being kept in his garden in Romania. Owner Lorian Galcescu, 45, said: ‘I don’t know what the problem is – they weren’t hurting anyone.’ He said he bought the two Senegalese lions as cubs from a fair that...

A dolphin weighing between 600 and 700 pounds jumped onto the deck of a boat, injuring a woman in South Florida. Isles of Capri Fire spokesman Keith Perry says a charter boat captain called 911 Sunday afternoon after the dolphin jumped on the boat and landed on one of his passengers. The...

Photographer Bob Garas has revealed his favourite subject to work with are frogs and he can spend hours waiting for them to strike the perfect pose in his studio. Garas often spends hours working with his subjects – his frogs – waiting for them to stretch for the perfect pose. ‘Every...

An estimated one million fish turned up dead in a Southern California marina, creating a floating feast for pelicans, gulls and other sea life and a stinky mess for harbour authorities. The sardines apparently depleted the water of oxygen and suffocated after getting lost in the marina...

Bird lover Eva Hueber could be forced to pay compensation for 'irresponsible feeding' and might even face prison for the mess the birds caused in the Austrian city of Villach. The property management company on the estate where Ms Hueber lives is taking action for 'many years of irresponsible...

It wasn't hoppy days for this tree frog when a hungry snake decided to hang out with it in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin. The poor amphibian was happily hopping along when a hungry snake snatched it from above. And it was all downhill from the moment it left the ground as, following a...

No, it's not another Syfy movie starring Tiffany and Debbie Gibson. But it does have a made-for-TV plotline: Mississippi man goes fishing. Man catches and hauls in a 300+ pound alligator gar fish more than 8 feed long. Cut to: "... giant fish comes back to life and swallows the fisherman...

SAO PAULO — Firefighters say they have removed a 5-foot-long alligator who was hiding behind a couch after floodwaters washed it into a home in northern Brazil. Capt. Luiz Claudio Farias of the Parauapebas city fire department says that when the floodwaters receded on Tuesday, a woman saw...

A rare spider with a human face – known as a lichen crab spider – has been spotted at a nature reserve in Wareham, Dorset. Since 1890 only 41 one of them have ever been seen in Britain – and it’s not surprising, because they’re only the size of a 20p piece and blend into lichen on tree...

The handlers donned the panda outfits to release giant panda Cao Cao and her cub Cao Gen into the Wolong Nature Reserve. They have worn the outfits at all times when handling the creatures as it is thought that a healthy fear of humans will be good for them in the wild. When pandas are...

This cat is getting a rather unwanted wake-up call – from a chirpy budgerigar that sounds like Star Wars robot R2-D2. The cat is ensconced in a cosy hammock next to a radiator, trying to sleep – but the brave white bird has other ideas. Despite the fact that it could be killed with one...

New photo of 'English Nessie' hailed as best yet Pictures of a mysterious creature surfacing from Lake Windermere have been hailed as the best ever sighting of the English Loch Ness Monster, or "Bownessie". This is believed to be the eighth sighting of a long humpbacked creature, known...

SYDNEY (Reuters) – A colony of 22,000 bats may be coming to a neighbourhood near you after an Australian court served the flying foxes with an eviction notice and allowed the government to chase them away with loud industrial noise. The court ruled that the grey-headed flying foxes, the...

Twenty-five Bolivian circus lions rescued from poor conditions arrived safely in the United States, bound for a Colorado wildlife refuge. Dubbed "Operation Lion Ark," the 14 males and 11 female cats arrived at Denver International Airport Wednesday on a jet chartered by Animal Defenders...

An Eastern European hunter was outfoxed by his quarry when the fox he had wounded (not the one pictured here) ended up shooting him by pulling the trigger on the man's gun. The unnamed Belarus hunter was trying to finish the animal off with the butt of his rifle after having wounded it from a...

Talk about a Valentine's Day catch. A Vicksburg, Miss., man caught what may turn out to be the largest-ever alligator gar. Weighing in at 327 pounds, the nearly 8½-foot-long prehistoric-looking creature has a girth of 47.95 inches, WAPT.com reports. "At first I didn't think he was that...

Link Removed due to 404 Error A Polish hunter who dreamed of shooting an elephant has sued a German-based travel company after it sent him to a part of Africa where he said there were no elephants to be found, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. The company, Jaworski Jagdreisen, which...

Scientists Say 'Blunt Force Trauma' Killed Arkansas Blackbirds Scientists investigating the death of thousands of blackbirds in Arkansas say they've identified the cause of death: blunt force trauma. Locals in Beebe, Ark., were mystified when as many as 5,000 red-winged blackbirds...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error 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...