A giant, flying turkey as tall as a kangaroo once roamed Australia, palaeontologists said Wednesday, after an analysis of fossils and bones from around the country revealed five extinct bird species.

A Japanese zoo celebrates the first birth of a baby panda in five years, with the tiny cub small enough to fit in the palm of a human hand.

The vaquita marina, a tiny porpoise native to Mexico, could be extinct by next year if urgent action including a ban on gillnets is not taken, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature warns.

Facing the highest level of threat are more than 360 species of large mammals in Africa, Asia and South America -- the most biodiverse regions of the world, said a review published in the journal Nature Insight.

Hilarious footage from Assam, India, captures the moment a young elephant decides to block a public road for nearly THIRTY minutes to practice football.

A college student shares a startling video of a sea lion snatching a girl off a dock and yanking her into the water on Canada’s West Coast.

Adorable panda in Taipei Zoo can't get enough thill bamboo. Taiwan's first native-born panda cub Yuan Zai has been enjoying a new item on its menu.

Cuba's Bay of Pigs has been invaded again, this time not by US-backed anti-Castro forces, but by millions of red, yellow and black landcrabs.

All hell breaks loose as the one-horned rhino steps out of the crate, the powerful male charging elephant-mounted mahouts relocating him to a new home in Nepal's far west in the hope of shoring up the vulnerable species.

The crested black macaque rises to fame when one of the monkeys snapped grinning selfies and becomes embroiled in a US court battle -- but the tussle over copyright is the least of the rare animal's worries.

Due to inefficient solutions in power lines, over 4000 saker falcons worth Mongolian Tugrik 64 billion ($26 million) die annually in Mongolia. This number increases by two times in some years.

The first naturally fluorescent frog is discovered recently in Argentina -- almost by chance, a member of the team of researchers tells AFP.

Animals on the Earth are now in grave danger as we are entering an era where the number of species becoming extinct is increasing rapidly.

Whale lovers in New Zealand finally get some good news after more than 200 stranded whales managed to refloat themselves overnight and swim away, while volunteers managed to save another 17 whales at high tide.

Rescuers defy a shark threat to form a human chain in a New Zealand bay in a bid to keep another 200 whales from becoming stranded a day after hundreds died in a mass beaching.

Every year the red crabs of Christmas Island in Australia migrate to the beach to lay eggs. And after the eggs hatch this is what you get.

A tiger is shot dead after a man who climbed a fence into the tiger enclosure to avoid paying for a ticket was mauled to death at a zoo in eastern China.

Lighter vessel, carrying 1,000 tonnes of coal sinks west of Zulfikar Channel on the way in to Passur River – some 10 kilometres into the estuary of Bay. All 13 aboard the vessel have been rescued.

Rapid Action Battalion detains two persons with hides of 11 deer in Kadamtali area of Dhaka.

Cheetahs are "sprinting" to extinction due to habitat loss and other forms of human impact, according to a new study out this week which called for urgent action to save the world's fastest land animals.