"This is the first documented sighting of a whale shark along Israel's Mediterranean coast, and only the third confirmed ...

A hippo’s bite can crush a watermelon and a person, but its feces are even deadlier in the long run. Scientists have found ...

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Edinburgh Zoo is bidding a fond farewell to Haggis the pygmy hippo with her ...

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A local resident stumbled upon the remains of the 19,700-year-old beast. Its record-breaking horn offers new insights into life in the Ice Age.

Dublin artist Jeanette Paras revealed Taylor SwiftKin 2.0, a 735-pound pumpkin tribute to the pop star and her heaviest ...

It’s touted as the largest collection of natural turquoise in the world. Now, the Turquoise Museum said it will be moving ...

There are estimated to be fewer than 800 Tapanuli orangutans left in the wild, living in a small patch of forest in North ...

ABC's Story Lab team has created an interactive tool to help Australians better understand the ancient history of our ...

A farmer in South Africa kept a pet hippo for six years before the animal turned on him and mauled him to death ...

In the forests of South Africa lurks an arachnophobe’s nightmare – Nephila kowaci, the largest web-spinning spider in the world. The females of this newly discovered species have bodies that are 3-4 ...

A rare hyena wandering through the skeletal remains of a ghost town has earned South African wildlife photographer Wim van ...