The Latest Breaking News on Nature

A 21-foot killer whale has died after beaching itself on the Atlantic coast in central Florida

Molly Sampson found an Otodus megalodon shark species tooth at a beach near her home in Maryland while hunting for fossils

The owl was later handed over to the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department and was then taken by the Kanpur Zoological Park in their custody. Read on for detalis:

Animal has been evading capture from Rochford fishing lake since mid-December

It’s a grim and all too common sight for rangers at some of Africa’s nature reserves: the bullet-riddled carcass of an elephant, its tusks removed by poachers. African elephant populations have fallen by about 30% since 2006. Poaching has driven the decline.

OSAKA -- The endangered Japanese eel has been confirmed for the first time to be living in the Dotonbori River in the Minami area of Osaka City, according to a local research institute.

South Australian authorities warn the public to be on alert after an increase in the number of cases of mosquito-borne viruses detected in people and mosquitoes.

Mountains are home to more than 85% of the world’s amphibian, bird and mammal species. Lowland slopes are rich in animal and plant species. And rugged, high-elevation environments, although lacking such biological diversity, play a key role in maintaining biodiversity in the wider mountain catchment area.

Half a million of these striking birds arrive in Britain in autumn to take advantage of the mild climate

Millers Dale, Derbyshire: Once I’d seen it, I could notice nothing else as it snaked up every tree and clambered across the ground

An endangered Mexican gray wolf has roamed beyond the species’ recovery area into the more northern reaches of New Mexico