“My brain said, ‘Nope, this isn’t really happening.’” Judie Schwager never expected her quiet Chicago suburb to feel like a scene out of Jurassic Park. One afternoon, she heard a…
Wildlife rescuer Keith Porteous, known online as The Wildlife Rescuer, recently answered a distress call about a tiny bird in big trouble — a chick trapped inside a drainpipe. When…
Wild chimpanzees may be consuming the equivalent of a bottle of beer a day — not from breweries, but from feasting on naturally fermented fruit, researchers have discovered. The study…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…