A third of Hong Kong's licensed ivory traders are encouraging buyers to smuggle ivory to China
Worldwide, an elephant is poached for its ivory every 25 minutes.
At least 17 killed in fresh mudslides in Colombia
At least 40 to 50 avalanches of mud and rock destroyed homes and inundated the streets in Manizales city in western Colombia.
Unusual iceberg spotting in Canada's Ferryland linked to climate change?
Unusually strong anti-clockwise winds contributing to the movement of icebergs, experts say.
Dental disease led legendary man-eating lions of Tsavo to kill humans
Dental injuries would have made catching other prey much more difficult.
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The massive forest fire broke out in Mount Abu in Rajasthan on the morning of 14 April.
April the giraffe gives birth as millions of people watch live-stream video
The 15-year-old giraffe delivered her fourth calf on Saturday (5 April) at Adventure Park's zoo in New York.
Why do snakes shed their skin? This close-up video is fascinating and nauseating
Shedding is totally normal – even if it looks weird.
Glowing pink shrimp species capable of killing with sonic energy named after Pink Floyd
The band have a reputation for playing at extremely loud volumes.
Early dinosaur cousin looked like a strange hybrid of a dinosaur and a crocodile
The dinosaur relative Teleocrater had features in common with crocodilians, dinosaurs and birds.
Asian elephants are aware of their own bodies - another sign of their intelligence
Scientists have found new proof that elephants are highly intelligent and self-aware.
Watch this drone footage of lava spewing from active volcanoes in Guatemala
Volcan de Fuego and Volcan de Pacaya are the two volcanoes filmed here.
Meth-addicted python in Australia back to normal after 7 months at rehabilitation centre
The python was found during a police raid at a crystal methamphetamine lab in Australia.
Herzegovinian men are the tallest in the world
If Herzegovinians were as well-nourished as the Dutch, they would be significantly taller than them.
Penguin poo in Antarctica reveals 6,700-year history of deadly volcanic eruptions
The gentoo penguins of Ardley Island have shown remarkable resilience for thousands of years.
Australia's Darwin braces for storm as Queensland recovers from aftermath of Cyclone Debbie
Bureau of Meteorology says the storm is likely to strengthen into category one Cyclone Frances late on 11 April.
Signs of life from the deep Earth erupt through mud volcanoes
Life could be thriving as far as 10km underground along tectonic plate boundaries.
Japanese scientists want to be the first to reach the Earth's mantle with an undersea drill
No undersea drill has so far been able to reach the mantle.
Stubby-nosed fossil discovered to be oldest crocodilian-like phytosaur
The fossil is the oldest known member of the semi-aquatic phytosaurs.
Cyclone Debbie damages part of Great Barrier Reef that evaded large-scale coral bleaching
Mass coral bleaching has damaged two-thirds of the World Heritage site.
Toledo Zoo welcomes baby Masai giraffe Kipenzi
The zoo said mother and baby are doing well.
How do volcanic arcs get their magma?
Lavas form when 'mélange' metamorphic rocks melt under volcanic arcs, geologists argue.
How sudden winds whip up deadly rogue ocean waves
'Freak' waves are actually very common.
Puffins that stick with their soulmate through thousand-mile migrations have more chicks
A first look at Skomer Island puffins' behaviour on their annual migrations shows the benefit of staying close together.
Stunning wildlife photos capture moments of surprising animal behaviour
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Unforgettable Behaviour is published by the Natural History Museum.
Octopuses are so weird they can even ignore their own genetic instructions
Ability to defy genetic programming may have helped them become highly intelligent.
Is there such thing as a hardwired instinct?
Instincts could simply be evolutionary echoes of what our ancestors learned the hard way.
Conservationists take note: 3D printing rhino horn won't increase poaching
Pembient wants to turn rhino horn from a rare commodity into an abundant bioplastic within the next five years.
Siberia: Extremely rare 40,000-year-old porcupine remains discovered
Porcupine remains have never been found this far north before.
Great apes can spot when we have 'false beliefs' about reality – and they can help us out
Experiments have shown that great apes know when researchers are mistaken about the location of an object.
Canis lupus: We may be creating a new species of human-dependent wolf
Gray wolf populations in Europe and North America are doing well as they live in close proximity to cities.
Makran megathrust: Earthquake on 1,000km-long fault could devastate parts of Iran and Pakistan
The fault on the northern end of the Arabian Sea could produce a magnitude 9 earthquake.
New species of worm-snail found on shipwreck uses 'Spiderman' mucus web to trap its prey
The new snail-worm species was discovered on the hull of the USNS General Hoyt S Vandenburg shipwreck.
Sex frenzies no good for male snakes, with their orgies leading to ageing and early death
Males of this species stick out a full 21-day orgy without eating, ruining their body condition and shortening their lives.
Don't believe in climate change? These 3D models of the Great Barrier Reef tell a damning story
Marine biologists have turned to 3D modelling to educate the world on increasing damage to coral reefs.
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