A migratory bird has caused alarm in a village in south-eastern Turkey after locals mistook it for an Israeli spy. Villagers' suspicions were aroused when the bird, a common European bee-eater, was found dead in a field with a metal ring around its leg stamped "Israel". They …
I put this in the holder and ten minutes later there he was, sitting on the tippy top, scouting for breakfast. The bluebird of happiness pooped on my new umbrella!
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Rangers in Australia's Northern Territory have shot dead a saltwater crocodile with a taste for dogs, clothing and other oddities, local media report. The 3.5-metre long (11.5ft) crocodile was attacking a dog at a beach near the community of Gatwinku on Tuesday when it was sho …
A decision to let an 83-year-old man keep his wild boar at home has given hope to another French family who have been separated from the wild fox they adopted two years ago. Bamby the boar was taken in by Yvan Blaise in February 2011. He said he would rather die than be separa …
WASHINGTON (CN) - A federal judge may block an agency's plan to castrate wild stallions and return them to public lands after finding that it used an email error to "remain studiously ignorant of material scientific evidence."
At first glance this incredible picture may look like one huge bird hovering in the sky, but the amazing outline is actually formed by a flock of starlings. The birds made the unbelievable formation as they came under threat from a nearby peregrine falcon. Once the flock had …
I don't know what kind of nerve, ferocity and stubbornness got 86-year-old Brendon Grimshaw to buy an island in the Indian Ocean, replant it with 16,000 trees, grasses and then lure a bunch of giant tortoises — big galumphing ones and itty-bitty ones — to live with h …
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They're usually only reserved for royalty, world leaders and VIPs, but a group of ducks were recently honoured with their very own police escort as they attempted to cross a busy motorway.
The remains of an entire herd of pregnant reindeer were found on Thursday near the bottom of a 1,200 metre-high cliff in northern Sweden, having all apparently plummeted to their death. "It's just terrible," Kjell-Åke Pittsa, chair of the Unna Tjerusj Sami village to whi …
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