New research has uncovered how different crimson rosella populations are related to each other – a discovery which has important implications for research into how climate change may affect Australia’s biodiversity.

Montauk, a town heavily featured in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the town where Kumail proposed to me, apparently has a dead monster on its hands. Picture after the jump, and get ready, it’s a bit intense.

Meet Princess Chunky - all 44 pound cat. Princess Chunky is just two pounds shy of the 1987 Guinness World Record for overweight cats as she has only 44 lb.

Worries over the future of Thailand' s famous elephants have emerged following an investigation by a University of Manchester team.

Researchers have discovered that a frog that lives near noisy springs in central China can tune its ears to different sound frequencies, much like the tuner on a radio can shift from one frequency to another. It is the only known example of an animal that can actively select what frequencies it hears, the researchers say.

The last 10 years has seen a huge increase in the popularity of exotic pets. Among the weird and wonderful animals being kept in our homes are monkeys, tarantulas, iguanas, salamanders, snakes, even hedgehogs.

Just as people give away their origins by that southern drawl or New England twang, poisonous snakes produce venom that differs distinctly from one geographic area to another, the first study of the "snake venomics" of one of the most common pit vipers in Latin America has found.

Visitors to the Animal Rescue Site (www.theanimalrescuesite.com) donated nearly $8,000 to provide relief for animal victims of the Midwest floods in June.

Dutch Rubicon laureate Chris Smit has concluded that small mammals, such as rabbits and mice, play a major role in the development of natural diversity. Smit researched how scrub becomes established in natural grassland. It seems that prickly shrubs are important in protecting plants and preventing animal species from grazing.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is alarmed by the dramatic decline of at least 30 percent in the Bengal tiger population of Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal, once a refuge that boasted among the highest densities of the endangered species in the Eastern Himalayas.

Several circus animals escaped last night in Amstelveen, just south of Amsterdam.

New exquisitely preserved fossils from Latvia cast light on a key event in our own evolutionary history, when our ancestors left the water and ventured onto land. Swedish researchers Per Ahlberg and Henning Blom from Uppsala University have reconstructed parts of the animal and explain the transformation in the new issue of Nature.