In a worrying development, hundreds of crows have died in Jharkhand due to bird flu, a government official said Thursday.

The crows first started dying mysteriously last month in Jamshedpur district.

For more than half a century, geologists have wrangled over the origins of an astonishing range of mountains found beneath ice up to three kilometers (two miles) thick in East Antarctica.

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A controversial method of extracting gas from the ground known as fracking was the 'highly probable' trigger of earth tremors along England's coastline this year, according to findings published on We

A morning walker at KBR Park in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, was arrested by the Wild Life Management of the Department of Forests, on Friday morning, for breaking a twig from a neem tree.

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US truck driver Louis Holst has never been scared of bees, but he's rethinking his next long-haul load a day after being swarmed by 25 million of the stinging insects.

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Authorities in Brazil's Piaui state are racing to act against a rising piranha population that has already injured nearly 100 beachgoers and is now threatening to shut the beach down.

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A monster crocodile which is reputedly the world's largest is the star attraction at its own nature park which opened in the Philippines this weekend, weeks after the beast's capture.

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A 20-foot (6.1-meter) saltwater crocodile that may be the world's largest in captivity has not eaten since it was captured in the Philippines.

Officials are closely monitoring the croc nicknamed 'Lol

Seven dogs starved of food and water for two weeks are suspected of eating their Indonesian owner after he returned to his hometown in Manado from a holiday, local media reported on Tuesday.

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A shark killed an Australian bodyboarder on Sunday after snatching him from a group of friends and savaging him so badly the lower half of his body was torn away, police said.

The man, aged in his ea