A zoo in Chile presented on Tuesday "Silverio," the third white rhinoceros calf born in South America. The species is in danger of extinction. There are only about 10,080 left in the world. (AP video by Mauricio Cuevas)
It's hard to say what is the most dangerous animal in the world; you're not comparing apples to apples. But when it comes dangerous, these four top the list.
The body of a giant basking shark which washed up on Scottish beach has been removed by a forklift.
The metabolism of a shark species which can live for 500 years could help scientists treat heart disease and increase people’s lifespan, scientists hope.
You're looking — yes, looking — for a group of hungry sharks to spark a feeding frenzy. “Sharks jump at every opportunity,” Dixon says. The week kicks off Sunday with Dixon's hour-long “Belly of the Beast: Bigger & Bloodier,” in which she and veteran “Shark Week” biologist Dr. Austin Gallagher try to lure a so-called Queen Boss off the New Zealand coast.
July and August are forecast to be 'very warm' - but it's not all good news...
At least six people have died and further fatalities ‘remains a grim reality’
Radiation blast can be thousands of times stronger than anything recorded with modern instruments, scientists say
Ukraine launched a drone attack on Tuesday night, targeting the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, where Moscow’s once-revered Black Sea Fleet is based after it was forced to abandon its Crimean base in Sevastopol.
The findings suggest they are able to push the apparent limits of what giant land animals can do.
Temperatures could exceed 40C in some areas
The UK has seen a considerable decrease in temperatures across the country compared to the previous week.
Hurricane Beryl, now a potentially catastrophic Category 5 storm, has set its sights on Jamaica after leaving at least one person dead and inflicting ruin across entire islands in the Caribbean on Monday.
Britain’s march of the wind turbines is about to resume. Ten years after the rural backlash that forced David Cameron’s government to cancel onshore wind developments, Ed Miliband is planning to do battle in the shires once again.
Britain is set to swelter in a scorching 28C heatwave later this month, with new weather maps showing exactly when the mercury will soar in the UK and blast away any chance of rain
A North Carolina woman and her service dog had a “close call” with a protective mother bear recently, after they “surprised each other” in the backyard of her Asheville home.Footage filmed by Audrey Thompson’s home security camera captured the moment the mama bear, who had been exploring the yard with four cubs, charged toward Thompson and her dog Gracie.“It was a close call in my backyard with a protective mama bear,” Thompson told Storyful. “We surprised each other, and she had four cubs to protect.”She said that they were charged at three times before getting safely back into the house.Thompson added that her neighborhood’s subdivision is known as Bear Alley, and that she’d had security cameras installed so that she could monitor for bear activity before letting Gracie out. Credit: Audrey Thompson via Storyful
To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their cousins.
Opponents of California's ambitious targets for electric car adoption to lower greenhouse gas emissions took their case to the U.S. Supreme Court this week, the latest salvo against the state's campaign to fight climate change. Energy companies, corn growers and industry associations have long opposed strong environmental rules in California, for decades the only state with power to request a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set its own vehicle emissions regulations that are more stringent than the federal standard.
A Darlington garden centre’s fish population has been left decimated after an otter ate more than £10,000 worth of its Japanese Koi.
Moving the 400-pound bear from under the deck into a truck was a ‘grueling process,’ state officials said
Around 134 million people in the U.S. are under alerts as an “extremely dangerous and record-breaking” heat wave broils much of the country, according to the National Weather Service. Regions that may see temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) or much higher into the triple digits (well above 37 degrees Celsius) include nearly all of the West Coast, the southern Plains, most of the lower Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley and parts of Florida, said Bob Oravec, a lead forecaster with the National Weather Service. “If it’s both humid and hot, you can’t really rely on sweat to cool you down to a safe level,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the University of California, Los Angeles.
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