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For the aquarium staff, every birth is significant and the first beluga born at Shedd in four years was no different.

A New Jersey man whose wife was killed in a horrific hippopotamus attack last year during a safari in Africa is suing the U.S ...

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Everyone knows the famous scene from the fable Pinocchio in which the whale swallows the boy. But can whales really swallow people - as can be seen in a recent video? PETBOOK investigated the question ...

It also could mean there are more “virus–infected dairy cattle in states where infection in dairy cattle has not yet been identified,” the CDC says. Human cases of bird flu still remain rare, with ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since palaeontologists uncovered ...

A sheep who learnt to paint by watching his ‘mentor’, Pigcasso, has been missing since the beginning of the month.

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He arrived in California in 1876, settling first in the Stockton area and then in Humboldt County in 1883. In 1885, he ...