An orangutan at an Australian zoo has been placed in solitary confinement following a remarkable escape attempt in which she short circuited an electric fence with a branch and then built a ladder from shrubs and sticks to scale another wall – before abandoning the bid for freedom and returning to her pen. Read More »
A Kenyan man survived a three-hour struggle with a four-metre python by biting the snake’s tail as it prepared to swallow him whole. Read More »
A turtle with one flipper who appeared doomed to spend more than 100 years paddling round in circles has been fitted with a prosthetic fin enabling her to swim straight. Read More »
Wild American turtles are being harvested from ponds and streams to feed an insatiable appetite for fresh turtle meat in Asia, conservationists have warned. Read More »
Dozens of new species including a tiny chirping frog, a bright green tree frog with enormous eyes, a striped gecko and more than 50 types of spider have been discovered in the remote mountain forests have Papua New Guinea. Read More »
In a real-life “Jurassic Park” attack, an Indonesian fisherman has been mauled to death by Komodo dragons – the dinosaurs’ closest living relation – following an ill-advised fruit picking trip. Read More »
One of them is a bygone relic of advancing years, seemingly out of time with the modern world, whose mating habits have long been a matter of intense public interest. The other is a giant tortoise. Lonesome George, the Galapagos Islands’ informal head of state, appeared nonplussed this week during a royal audience with Prince Charles, quickly retreating to the shade of a nearby tree. Read More »
An Australian woman has spoken of her horror after discovering a python in her back yard – with her pet dog inside it. Patty Buntine, who lives in Australia’s Northern Territory, had stepped outside to give Bindi the Maltese terrier-cross her breakfast, little realising that the giant reptile had already breakfasted on Bindi. Read More »