A rat may seem like an unlikely candidate to receive a gold medal for bravery and devotion to duty.  However, six-year-old African giant pouched rat Magawa, who was honored with...

Ryker, a gorgeous Belgian Malinois, achieved instant Internet fame in December 2018 after the trainers at the Double H Canine Training Academy in Louisville, Kentucky, released ...

Since the beginning of 2020, the East African country of Kenya has been battling the nation's worst desert locust outbreak in over 70 years. The destructive swarms, some as big ...

Though it is now arid, the Urumaco region in Venezuela's Falcón State was once a mega wetland that was home to numerous colossal animal species. These included rodents the size ...

With fewer than 2,000  giant pandas left in the wild, the sighting of one of the cuddly animals is a cause for celebration. However, the one recently spotted trampling through a...

A charming stray puppy has become an internet darling thanks to her prominent "handlebar mustache" skin pigmentation, which closely resembles the iconic facial hair of the late ...

On normal days, Buñol, located 30 miles from Valencia, Spain has a  population of about 9,000. However, that changes on the last Wednesday of August, when tens of thousands of r...

An elephant, who accidentally fell into a dry, 25-foot deep well in Northeast India, lived to see another day thanks to the quick-thinking rescuers' scientific knowledge. The ch...

A shark that walks in water instead of swimming might sound like a creature straight out of a science fiction thriller.  However, that is precisely how the four new species of t...

California's Yosemite National Park is home to numerous stunning waterfalls. However, from mid-to-late February each year, the unlikely star of the pristine preserve is Horsetai...