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People wanted to build a £900,000 dam – but beavers did it in one night for free

World February 4, 2025 By Luke Alsford

2YXNR0G Single krill specimen (Euphausiacea) in black water, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia.

How scientists are counting tiny critically important sea creatures from space

Tech February 4, 2025 By Jen Mills

Man makes horrifying discovery under his house

Man returns home after weeks away to find a surprising guest living under it

US February 4, 2025 By Sam Courtney-Guy

A supplied image obtained on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, of Charlize Zmuda (left) who was killed after she was attacked by a shark at Bribie Island in Queensland. (AAP Image/Supplied by Zmuda family) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

First picture of girl 17, killed in shark attack at beach

World February 10, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

Tiny endangered frogs travel 7,000 miles to London in desperate rescue mission

World February 4, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Unruly pigs who think they're on Prison Break keep tearing up gardens of village

UK February 4, 2025 By Jen Mills

Photographs of american nutria in local river

Giant 'river rats' are causing chaos in Prague — how did they get there?

World February 2, 2025 By Gergana Krasteva

Here's why this fish looks like the latest being to try lip filler injections

Weird February 3, 2025 By Josh Milton

Dogs dyed to look like tigers.

Chinese zoo is now painting dogs to look like tigers

World February 1, 2025 By Jasper King

A person in a hazmat suit injecting a chicken and image inset of the map of UK showing the new avian flu prevention zone.

Map shows where bird flu prevention zone is declared in UK after cases rise

UK February 5, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen

Crocodile with puppy in its mouth.

Crocodile caught swimming down river with little puppy in its mouth

World January 25, 2025 By Jasper King

Woman who was eaten by her pugs.

Dog owner’s body was eaten by her pet pugs after lying undiscovered for days

World January 25, 2025 By Jasper King

Thousands of tortoises rescued after sanctuary floods

World January 24, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Jellyfish 'wreak havoc' on Scottish salmon farms killing 200,000 fish

UK January 20, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Sad reason penguins get divorced (but may regret it later)

Tech January 20, 2025 By Jen Mills

Kate Winslet reveals her most irrational fear of farm animal

Kate Winslet reveals her most irrational fear of farm animal

Showbiz January 21, 2025 By Robert Oliver

Trees and frog.

Warning after stowaway snakes and tree-frogs hide in common potted plants

UK January 18, 2025 By Jasper King

Over a century after its discovery, the Mount Lyell shrew has finally been photographed alive for the first time. Until last October, the Mount Lyell Shrew was the ONLY known mammal species in California that had never been photographed alive.

Rare animal photographed alive for the first time in history

US January 18, 2025 By Josh Milton

Drug-eating rats invade police evidence room.

Drug-eating rats invade police evidence room and get taste for coke and cannabis

US January 17, 2025 By Jasper King

Boy, 8, mauled to death by stray dogs he stopped to pet in his neighborhood

US January 16, 2025 By Jessica Kwong

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