If we set aside elephants and blue whales for a moment and shift our focus to the other end of the size spectrum, the world ...

Wiltshire Council has admitted it does not know how many monkeys live in the county. As reported by the Local Democracy Reporting Service in September, residents who keep a monkey as a pet will need a ...

The Zoo of Naples, a 25-acre wildlife and botanical garden located in the Fuorigrotta neighborhood, offers a respite from the ...

Tirupati: A male Red-Necked Wallaby at the Sri Venkateswara Zoological Park (SVZP) in Tirupati died late on Thursday night.

Small, but mighty, these countries are some of the smallest in the world and yet they bring in a surprising number of ...

When most people think about getting a pet, they picture a trip to the local shelter or maybe a reputable breeder for a ...

MORE than twenty years ago, I found myself in a rescue centre near the city of Medellín, on the western side of Colombia’s Magdalena Valley. I can still remember the sight – rows of tiny tamarins ...

Deep in South American rainforests lives the pygmy marmoset, the world's smallest monkey. This tiny primate, weighing just ...

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and agricultural expansion, ...

The rare species of prehistoric predator was found in southern England. A new species of ancient "sword dragon" marine reptile has been discovered in a set of fossils found in England, according to ...

Fishermen caught a “large”-headed sea creature with “very small teeth” off Iran that scientists identified as a new species, a study said. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto Off the southern coast of Iran ...