A batch of large Chilean Rose tarantulas is feared to have become loose in the UK after two were found in gardens. The rare spiders are able to blind ...

A rare shrimp that could be the oldest animal species on the planet has been found alive and well in Scotland. Based on fossil evidence the tadpole sh...

Hoping to take over from He Pingping who died this year Huang Kaiquan is on track to be crowned world's smallest man. At a mere 76cm tall and weighing...

A team will revisit the Titanic next month and generate a 3-dimensional map of the entire wreckage. The expedition is the most advanced scientific mis...

It looks like a donkey but has a zebra's stripes and instincts - meet the zedonk, a cross between a donkey and a zebra. The unusual animal was born at...

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has attracted tourists from all over the world, but what is the story behind it ? For the last 20 years Professor John Burla...

A very rare lobster has been found off the coast of England with a peculiar chequered black and red pattern. Scarborough Sea Life Centre Todd German s...

A cave system near Sydney is going to be the first in the world to offer tours spoken in Klingon. Near the Blue Mountains west of Sydney in Australia ...

Residents in South Africa reported a UFO with three bright lights on two consecuctive nights over Pretoria. "I'm not saying it's green little space me...

Controversy has surrounded a Canadian Anglican church after a vicar gave Holy Communion to an Alsation called Trapper. "The minister welcomed me and s...

Letters from an airliner that crashed on Mont Blanc 60 years ago have been found and reunited with their recipients. There were no survivors of the cr...

Remains of the largest rat every to walk the planet have been discovered in a cave in East Timor. The massive rodent was three times the size of its m...

If an extraterrestrial race came down and invited you to leave Earth with them on a one-way trip would you do so ? This very question has been posed i...

Two photographs taken at different times during tours at Edinburgh's Mary King's Close seem to show a familiar extra. ...

Another consequence of global warming has become apparant in the creation of bigger and stronger 'super marmots'. ...