A young elk rescued from a flooding river by a farmer in Inje, Gangwon Province, South Korea. It was adopted by a female dog that breastfeeds and guards him

Eight-month-old orphan elephant Themba, whose name means ‘hope’ in Xhosa, who has struck up a friendship with a sheep called Albert at the Shamwari Game Reserve in [...]

Charles Darwin called the plant puzzle “one of the most wonderful in the world. Since his time, scientists have pondered how the flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is able to accomplish the feat without benefit of the nerves and muscles of swift animals. Now researchers have found tensile strength is behind the plant’s speedy clampdown on a [...]

This post is something that we believe will be loved by any animal lover as we ourselves feel the same way. These photos speak much louder than words can, & need none to say what they want to convey.
These images display the amazing canine loyalty. This dog stood by his companion after been run over [...]

This is the adorable chihuahua puppy who, like his older brother, was born with a perfect heart-shaped patch on his side.
The cute little pooch has been suitably named Lovekun by its owner in northern Japan.
At three days old, the long-haired chihuahua has been catching up on his sleep between bouts of suckling on his mother [...]

On the beaches of Big Major Spot Island, the Bahamas, a family of brown and pink boars and piglets live freely on the sandy white beaches and swim in the tropical surf

“We were in the southern Bahamas to photograph oceanic white-tip sharks,” says the 33-year-old. “Our [...]

A chimpanzee enjoys a piece of ice filled with peanuts and fruit bites in Amersfoort Zoo, The Netherlands

A sea otter tries to cool down near an ice block at Antwerp’s zoo in Belgium

Otters cool off with some specially made fish ice lollies at an aquarium in Southsea, Hampshire

Squirrel monkeys examine the fruit ice blocks in [...]

As a precious metals refiner, Leon Toffel is used to dealing with fine dust, perhaps produced at a bench by a dental technician.
But some years ago, when he received globules of molten metal in the post, he realised there was a new market to be mined.
Toffel’s new client was a retiring crematorium worker.
“We processed it [...]

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Oyster

The common name oyster is used for a number of different groups of bivalve mollusks, most of which live in marine habitats or brackish water. The shell consists of two usually highly calcified valves which surround a soft body. Gills filter plankton from the water, and strong adductor muscles are used to hold the [...]

The Chaiten volcano in Chile erupts during storms in the middle of the night on May 3

An aerial photograph captures the plume of ashes spewed by the Chaiten volcano in Chile, on May 31

A soldier on the banks of the Rio Blanco looks at a cloud of ash from the Chaiten Volcano in southern Chile [...]