Escaped monkey who ‘went for a stroll’ is home safe
Residents of Buncrana, County Donegal, got a surprise visitor at the pier this week when a capuchin monkey named Joey was spotted perched on a fence near the harbour. Joey,…
Cost of vet bills causing pet owner sleepless nights
A Northamptonshire pet owner says the soaring costs of caring for her animals have left her with “sleepless nights” over how she would afford treatment if they became unwell. Alison…
No sign of missing pony foals in eagle nests after ‘snatching’ claim
Scotland’s environment watchdog has reported no evidence linking sea eagles to the disappearance of Shetland pony foals on South Uist, despite concerns raised by a local crofter. Farmer Donald John…
Oldest-known dome-headed dinosaur discovered sticking out of a cliff in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert
The juvenile pachycephalosaurs, which predates the previous oldest dome-headed dinosaur by 15 million years, reveals more about how and when this unusual feature developed. Paleontologists working in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert…
‘Rare’ ancestor reveals how huge flightless birds made it to faraway lands
The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved. Ostriches in Africa, emus in Australia, rheas in South America, and…
How the mystery origins of hairy little Yakutian horses were uncovered in Siberia’s ‘gateway to the underworld’
In 2018, a perfectly-preserved foal was pulled from the permafrost in Siberia. It’s discovery, along with another horse from the Batagay crater, paved the way for scientists to solve the…
Ancient DNA from Mexico’s mammoths reveals unexpected — and unexplained — genetic mysteries
Columbian mammoths in Mexico are genetically different from those in the U.S. and Canada, surprise DNA study reveals. For the first time in tropical latitudes, scientists have successfully sequenced ancient…
Never-before-seen adorable pink bumpy snailfish with funny little beard filmed in deep canyon off California coast
Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute used remotely operated vehicles to find three new species of snailfish off the California coast. Far beneath the waves off California’s coast,…
‘Almost like science fiction’: European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species
A species of ant found scurrying across southern Europe is the first animal found that clones males of another species. In a discovery that rewrites the rules of reproduction, scientists…
Grumpy-looking Pallas’s cat photographed by camera trap in stunning photo from eastern Himalayas
The Pallas’s cat is just one of several wildcats spotted in Arunachal Pradesh, which also supports snow leopards, common leopards, clouded leopards, leopard cats and marbled cats. For the first…