MELBOURNE, Australia -- Australian fishermen have hauled up a 20-foot-long giant squid off the country's southeastern coast.
Skipper Rangi Pene said Monday that the 500-pound squid was already dead when it was caught in a trawler's nets Sunday night in
North Georgia animal control officers capture another suspected rabid wild animal. Walker County animal control got a call Monday about a bobcat behaving strangely on A-1 Leet Road in Kensington.
He found a group of at least seven people standing in a circle, watching two dogs, as he is quoted, "viciously fighting". The deputy say the group was laughing and egging the animals on, "as they were tearing into each others flesh".
Boomer is back in a cage, and residents of Maniwaki can resume life as normal as a result. Quebec provincial police were able to capture the 150-lb. cat without incident this morning after it was spotted along Hwy. 105 by a resident.
State wildlife agents have caught the black bear that had eluded them for the past two weeks in the South Hill area. Agents tranquilized the animal about 3:45 a.m. Thursday after Pierce County sheriff's deputies chased it up a tree with a canine unit.
Four-year-old Prada, a male monkey, apparently escaped from a Coconut Palms apartment. The monkey's owner is out of town and a friend was watching the animal. Somehow the monkey was able to escape from his cage and climbed out an open window.
When fisherman Shyamal Halder started drawing in his net, it felt heavy and he was confident of netting a good catch of prawns. But what came up was a huge crocodile. The incident took place at a picnic spot called Sabuj Dweep in Balagarh's Sukharia in
Forestry officials in eastern India have arrested a wildlife trader found carrying the skins of five rare clouded leopards, the area's wildlife conservator said Wednesday.
The illegal haul included the skins of two cubs.
The arrest was made in the
QUEEN guitarist Brian May has slammed the Scottish government as "despicable" for refusing to ban animal snares.
The veteran rocker aimed a furious blast at ministers on his website, saying: "I hope you can look your children in the eye when they ask
A moose taller than a sport utility vehicle wandered into the backyard of a Vail condo and needed help to get out Tuesday. The 700-pound bull moose fell from a snow-covered retaining wall into the yard.
"They have long legs but poor vision. It looked
The State Police (Forest Cell) has apprehended two persons who were allegedly involved in illegal wildlife trade in south India. The arrest is being seen as a major success in curbing the illegal wildlife trade in this part of the country.
A full-grown tigress which had perched on a palm tree top at a village in South 24-Parganas since last night, was rescued by forest officials today. However, before she could be brought down from the tree and released in the deep forests of Sundarbans,
Authorities in east Georgia are seeking the owner of a wandering emu that made drivers gawk and clogged traffic on Interstate 20 before it was finally caught. The three-toed emu a flightless bird was spotted by numerous motorists on Wednesday after it
A Sumatran tiger believed to have killed some people so far was caught in a trap set by villagers in Peulamat village in the subdistrict of Labuhan Haji Timur, South Aceh, on Saturday
They raided a house in Thanh Xuan district and found two disemboweled tigers weighing around 250kg each in freezers.
In another house nearby, owned by 40-year-old Nguyen Thi Thanh of Lao Cai province, they found a tiger skin and bones and parts.
