NATURE

The 17-year-old admitted to shooting the bird several times after it did not die from the initial gunshot.

Captive oryx antelopes have been reintroduced to Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve to great success.

The zoo in eastern Mosul was once home to a multitude of animals including four lions, but under Islamic State rule, they died of starvation or were killed off.

Almost 50,000 samples of seeds sent to Svalbard Global Seed Vault to ensure global food security.

Dusky dolphins have been filmed playing with kelp and rubbing flippers.

Forest elephant populations have crashed by 80% in one of Central Africa's most important nature reserves.

Despite opposition from animal lovers, Australia plans to cull millions of feral cats in the next three years.

Human-animal chimeras could revolutionise medicine, but the thought of it makes us feel nauseous.

A number of the gentle fish spend their winter months off the coasts of Spain, Portugal and North Africa.

The charity has launched a full investigation into the incident

New Zealand is the major habitable administrative set up under Zealandia.

Here are the five animals that kill the most humans – and sharks are not one of them.

The bold claim relies on utilising a revolutionary gene-editing tool.

Over 50 flocks have been infected by the virus, with up to 20% of lambs lost so far.

Located in India's eastern state of Odisha, Rushikulya Beach is one of three mass nesting sites for the turtles, followed by the coasts of Mexico and Costa Rica.

UN Food and Agriculture Organisation fears for food security as species moves across African countries.

Despite revised estimate of green turtle populations, their number is steadily growing

The zone's resurgent wolf population poses a threat to nearby livestock, so local farmers pay hunters for each wolf they kill.

BBC investigation looks at how rangers in north-eastern India shoot poachers to protect rhinos.

It only takes a few macaques to create mayhem, if they manage to evade the monkey police.

Volunteers worked to try to rescue the pilot whales but most died quickly after being beached.

Mass eruption at one of the world's biggest volcanic features contributed to extinction of the dinosaurs.

The clues the penguins use to find food are no longer fitting in warmer, over-fished seas.

First domesticated 7,000 years ago, scientists have now sequenced the genome of quinoa.

A large genetic study of black rhinos has yielded new clues about how their populations could be better managed.

2,500 animals of the critically endangered species have died in an outbreak that began in livestock.

Geneticist Vavilov ended up starving to death in a Soviet gulag in 1943.

When played their 'favourite song', participants said it no longer elicited the same feeling.

Homes destroyed and trees felled as seven twisters injure at least 20 people.