An elderly woman resident of Falconara, Ancona Italy, was attacked during the night by a rat that bit her nose. “While I was sleeping I suddenly woke up from the pain,” the elderly woman has said.
A giant owl that has hardly been seen in African jungles for 150 years has been photographed in the wild for the first time by British scientists working in Ghana.
In recent years a multitude of images have been shared with different points of view in the form of an optical illusion that have taken social networks by storm.
The rooster will have to leave his farm, the sentenced also warns the farmer who often uses the tractor at the end of the day: his line of defense was not accepted.
For two years, a moose lived with a tire around its neck; to get rid of the problem, officials had to cut off its antlers. The animal does not appear to have suffered any visible injury from the weight of the rubber.
Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who posed for a selfie with a ranger in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has died at the age of 14 after a long illness, the park said Thursday.
A fisherman is in luck after catching a record-breaking “monster” shark off the coast of Devon. The best part of the case is that the shark was unhooked and thrown back into the sea.
The red panda is overshadowed by the black and white giant with which it shares its name. It is usually the size of a domestic cat, although its large bushy tail adds 46 centimeters to its body.
The giant Pacific octopus is the largest and longest-lived of all octopus species. The size record is held by a specimen 9 meters wide and weighing 272 kilograms. An average specimen is about 5 meters long and weighs 50 kilograms.
A new genetic manipulation company was born with a single, gigantic purpose: to save elephants from extinction and revive the extinct woolly mammoth.
Horrifying images and video show children watching as a “super pod” of nearly 1,500 dolphins was slaughtered off the coast of the Faroe Islands last night.
The diversity of the marine fauna is practically incomprehensible and some species never cease to amaze us. One of them is the ‘Urechis unicinctus’, very popular in China, Japan and Korea but especially famous in the world for its informal name: the ‘penis fish’.
The wood frog has developed specialized strategies to tolerate the inevitable: the partial freezing of its body during winter.
A hunter was injured Wednesday after a grizzly bear mauled him in Wrangell-St. Elias, Alaska, authorities said. The park service warned campers, hunters and hikers to follow bear safety protocols in the wilderness.
A Los Angeles man was arrested after he allegedly set his family dog on fire, according to authorities who reported that the Welsh Corgi dog was hung on a fence and set on fire during the heinous act.
the naval officers pulled the animal out of the water, they discovered that what at first glance looked like a shark actually had a face that looked more like a pig.