The stone curlew is a crow-sized bird with a large head, yellow legs and relatively long wings and tail, that are more active at night. Once found widely throughout England, stone curlew numbers ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated ...

Although the bush stone curlew was once common ... and the largest cache of poisonous critters in the animal kingdom. Please share. You can find the source of this story's featured image here.

Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.

"Słupcio" — or "little guy from Słupsk" in Polish — is the name given to the amber bear in 2013, when a Polish kindergartner ...

A rare bird that was once on the brink of extinction has been spotted in Norfolk. Images taken by Norfolk Wildlife Trust have captured a stone curlew at Weeting Heath near Brandon. The stone curlew is ...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

A Hunter grandad who was one step away from being put behind bars after he threw a live chicken into an alligator enclosure ...