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Baby large antlered muntjac photographed

A black big cat resembling a panther was captured on camera moving near a construction site on the outskirts of Kiskunhalas, in southern Hungary. The video was shared by the town’s mayor on Facebook

The Ice Age creature was discovered in the thawing permafrost in the Yakutia region in Russia’s extreme north in August. It is thought to be the best-preserved woolly rhino found there yet.

Because a drain pipe at the Linz Chemical Park was blocked, a company came to clear the blockage. To the surprise of the workers, the constipation was a 100-pound catfish.

The two and a half meter long fish had to be pulled to the surface with a crane. “Today” reports that online

‘The cat was about three feet away from me,’ he said. ‘It was a sandy colour and had black stripes going down and around from it’s eyes to it’s nose’

Chris Packham and a campaign to “rewild the royals” have had a “really good” meeting with the crown estate to ask it to consider pledging a slice of its 615,000 acres to wild nature.

For the first time ever, scientists have been able to record information about the migration of Australia’s short-finned eels.

A video taken in a rural part of Northumberland appears to show a large black cat walking across a farmer’s field – in broad daylight.

The footage was taken in the remote Allen Valleys by a worker who wishes to remain anonymous – but said it “had to be bigger” than a normal cat after spotting it from around 40 metres away.

Outrage was sparked in Iran after the government proposed a law in November that would ban pets in the country.

The law, named Protection of the Public’s Rights Against Animals, was proposed by 75 hardliner legislators and introduced in November, described people living with animals as a “destructive social problem,” and bans “importing, raising, assisting in the breeding of, breeding, buying or selling, transporting, driving or walking, and keeping in the home wild, exotic, harmful and dangerous animals,” according to AFP. However, the definition of “harmful and dangerous animals” does not strictly cover animals typically deemed as such.

Fossil discovery shows some Australian ‘thunder birds’ had painful bone infection before species went extinct

Key points:
What caused the demise of the thunder bird isn’t entirely settled
Analysis of fossils found in South Australia has revealed some of the birds had a bone disease
Scientists found the dating of the fossil site coincided with severe drought
This mihirung paringmal (giant bird), sometimes called a “thunder bird” (Genyoris newtoni), weighed five to six times that of an emu, was 2 metres tall, and had a huge beak.

London mayor releases £600,000 funding to help create green rooftops and reintroduce lost species.

A blood sample believed to be the oldest in the world has been found in an ancient mummified foal, boosting hopes of bringing extinct species back to life.