PARIS (AFP) - A selection of unusual animal goings on in 2008

Eastern coyotes, a term for the coyotes living in northeastern North America, have been an enigma to scientists and laypeople for many years.

Coltan ("columbite-tantalite") is a unique metal used in the batteries of small electronics: your iPod, cell phone, pager, DVD player, laptop... The endangered forests of E.Congo is the coltan mining capitol... & the home of the Mountain Gorilla.

THIS IS NEGRITA; SHE LIVED IN ONE OF THE SHANTY TOWNS IN AND AROUND PIRANA, ARGENTINA...FROM WHAT ME KNOW, NEGRITA LIVED WITH A WOMAN AND WE ARE GUESSING SHE HAD TO FORAGE FOR HER MEAGER DIET...

A reward over the shooting of two Californian horses, one used as a therapy horse for children, has grown to $US17,000. Hoofprints on the Heart Adaptive Riding Center board member Michael Rountree woke up on Wednesday morning to find two horses, Choctow

The US Supreme Court has removed restrictions on the navy's use of sonar in training exercises near California.<br /> <br /> The ruling is a defeat for environmental groups who say the sonar can kill whales and other mammals.

When IAR started working in Malta, birds were being shot in the public gardens and nature reserves, unsterilised dogs and cats were running wild, and the dolphinarium had just imported dolphins from the old Yugoslavia in a 'humanitarian' effort to save

HORRIFIED Joyce Weston found three of her sheep with their faces ripped off after two dogs went on a rampage in her barn. The dogs attacked a six-month-old sheep that had to be put down by vets, and killed two older sheep on Thursday.

Animals Australia has today criticised the failure of Agriculture Minister Tony Burke to censure the live export industry whilst announcing the reopening of the trade to Egypt. "Minister Burke has announced that that there will now be strict

A dog found wandering the streets of a Pittsburgh suburb was wearing a collar made of fish hooks. The cruel collar forced the dog to undergo surgery to remove at least one of the hooks from his neck. Humane officers at the SPCA in North Union told