An investigation is launched after wildlife advocates say a platypus burrow was destroyed by an excavator being used for ...

On June 3, the first case of the New World screwworm (NWS) was discovered in La Pryor, Texas, infecting a three-week-old calf. Since then, screwworm cases have continued to gradually rise. As of July ...

Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest ...

MADURAI: A persistent rat infestation at the Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) has become a cause of concern for patients, attendants and doctors, with hospital ...

Cuteness can shift moods and lower cortisol, and science backs it up. Looking at baby animals, like a seal pup blinking on a ...

Ask most people what they know about the inland taipan and you'll get the same answer every time. It's the most venomous snake on Earth, capable of killing a person in under an hour without treatment, ...

Residents have reported finding droppings near children's beds and even incidents where injured residents needed to be hospitalized for proper treatment. Sanitation officials have distributed ...

Puffins look like they belong on a postcard, with brightly coloured beaks, comical waddling walks, tucked into dramatic clifftop burrows. Behind that cheerful image, however, puffin colonies across ...