A video of a falcon flying at 110 km/h next to a car has gone viral.
Many strange things have been seen on Google’s Street View application. Now they’ve been forced to answer about the fate of a donkey in Botswana that they may or may not have knocked over. They have of course denied knocking the donkey over.
The discovery of a giant decapitated crocodile’s head on St. Lucia beach has sparked fears that a huge shark might be on the prowl.
Passengers on a Qantas flight over Australia got more than what they bargained for yesterday when they spotted a 3,6m-long python clinging on to one of the plane’s wings.
Tim Flach is a British photographer who is known for snapping incredible human-like photographs of animals. Going far beyond taking a simple photo, Flach also captures the emotions of wild creatures through intensely close-up shots.
A team of scientists has captured the world’s first live images of a giant squid in it’s natural habitat. This is the same mysterious creature thought to have inspired the myth of the “kraken” – a tentacled monster which was reputed to drag ships and sailors to their doom.
And there it is – not 10 days into the new year, a dead, de-horned rhino has been found in the North West. Click for story.
For reasons that are not altogether clear, a group of New Zealanders have spent eight weeks teaching two abandoned dogs to drive. The ultimate tast is to have a dog drive a Mini Clubman around a track without human help.
Scientists have acknowledged that it’s not just us humans that suffer from midlife crises – apes do too. Except the apes might not go out and buy a Harley, or take up golf on their own accord.
The Internet loves cute animals doing cute things. And the latest video making people squeal “aawwww” across the globe is no different. Its star is a baby red panda from the Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo, Japan.
Idaho State University professor of anatomy and anthropology, Jeffrey Meldrum, believes Bigfoot exists, and he has announced a project that will hopefully see him launch a blimp to prove his theory.
This is one of two whales which may be the only fully-preserved specimens of its species ever seen by human kind. Spade-toothed beaked whales were first discovered in 1872 when bone fragments were found on a remote Pacific island, but until now the species has remained entirely hidden from human view. In the 140 years […]
Sharks, particularly Great Whites, have a pretty bad rep. The apex predators are often labelled as man-eaters based on a handful of out of context events. Photographer Daniel Botelho spent two weeks with the ancient beasts and returned with what he calls “definitive proof” that they don’t deserve the label or association.
From “Bubble Jetting Emperors”, to an awe-inspiring shot of Peyto Lake in Canada’s Banff National Park, the winning photographs of this year’s Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition are truly astonishing, and not to be missed.
There are few things, let alone animals, that can stop a herd of thousands of wildebeest mid-migration, but it appears one angry two-ton hippo might just be enough.
It’s generally accepted that octopi are very intelligent, clever creatures however the depths of their cunning has never truly been measured, until now. An underwater camera, in South Africa’s False Bay, captured footage of one of the molluscs stealing an entire bait cannister – that was attacehed with three cable ties – while keeping a shark at bay!
It’s not often you get to be close to dolphins as they swim, but imagine being close to thousands at one go? That’s what explorer Mike Horn and photographer Chase Jarvis did recently along the Cape Town coastline.
For the second time in 28 years Africa can say it has a new species of monkey – the lesula is found in remote forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“Man’s best friend” takes on a whole new meaning after you read this amazing story. If you thought your dog was loyal, you’ve got nothing on this canine, who rescued his owner’s life – even though it would mean that he’d have to sacrifice his own.
While recently holidaying in the Kruger National Park, a South African couple were caught off-guard, and were at a loss about what to do, when a giant five metre long python slithered up into their car’s bonnet and refused to budge!
The Denali National Park in Alaska has suffered its first deadly grizzly bear attack in the North American park’s 95 year history. 49 year-old Richard White of San Diego was attacked on Friday, but managed to snap up 26 photographs, which may provide vital insight into the minutes before his death.
Currently we rely heavily on Shark Spotters positioned at strategic points along the Cape Peninsula for shark warnings. What if there was an app for that, too?
The team over at Green Renaissance has started an activation along the N2 highway in Cape Town near the Cape Town International Airport. It will serve as a continual reminder of the epidemic that is rhino poaching in South Africa.
At last the South African government is taking a firm stance on educating countries in the Far East that rhino horn doesn’t cure ailments like erectile dysfunction.
Has the Loch Ness monster finally been caught on camera? Well, George Edwards from Scotland certainly thinks so! The monster hunter has spent the past 26 years searching for Nessie. He now claims to have taken the “best picture ever” of the beast, after dedicating 60 hours a week to his quest.
Like so many of their human counterparts who have become fed-up with inadequate safety and security measures, mountain gorillas in Rwanda have taken matters into their own hands, literally. It recently came to light that juvenile gorillas had been seen dismantling complicated ensnarement devices, with their bare hands.
A mourning ritual that is rarely seen, and even more rarely captured on camera, will raise further questions about whether dolphins understand the concept of death.
Have you ever been so hungry that you could steal food from a pride of 15 hungry lions? No? Me neither. But for a couple of chaps north of our border it’s common practice. Click through for the sweat-inducing how-to video.
A bull has gored two Britons and an American during the running of the bulls festival in Pamplona over the weekend. The three were among several people caught and attacked by the animal after he had had broken free from the pack.
Incredibly, the US National Ocean Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had to issue a statement in the last week confirming the non-existence of mermaids after Animal Planet aired “Mermaids: The Body Found” and a whole bunch of Americans thought it was real.