Caged 'cavemen' go on display at Warsaw zoo
WARSAW, Poland - Visitors to Warsaw's zoo are being greeted by two "Homo sapiens" peering out from a cage - humans in animal skins trying to spark interest in man's caveman ancestors.
WARSAW, Poland - Visitors to Warsaw's zoo are being greeted by two "Homo sapiens" peering out from a cage - humans in animal skins trying to spark interest in man's caveman ancestors.
LONDON - Paul Brown, a murderer serving a life sentence, has claimed that his human rights are being violated after prison authorities did not allow him to keep his pet budgie with him.
NEW DELHI - A Chinese woman has placed an online advert looking for a "qualified male who can look after 14 dogs, including a mastiff and two other large canines".
NEW YORK - The 83rd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has kicked off in New York City with a 60-foot-tall Kermit the frog hovering over holiday revelers.
DHAKA, Bangladesh - A court in southwestern Bangladesh has jailed two men for severely beating a pregnant crocodile at an Islamic shrine, a news report said Thursday.
LAKEBAY, Wash. - Betty Corey first thought the hissing from her Lakebay, Wash., kitchen might be one of her dogs.
LON - Thanks to French captain Thierry Henry's 'hand of frog' goal in World Cup qualifier against Ireland, his team has hit a jackpot.
WASHINGTON - Mandrills monkeys, a species closely related to humans, sniff out potential mates with different genetic makeup in order to have healthy and strong offspring, according to a new study.
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LOS ANGELES - Dogs across the country can expect some bone-shaped presents under the Christmas tree this year.
LONDON - Reports indicate that a new aquatic fungus is threatening to make many amphibians like frogs and toads extinct.
JASHPUR - A young man named Pilu Sahay of Bansjhal village in Chhattisgarh's Jashpur district has a bizarre addiction of consuming snake venom.
LOS ANGELES - Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport.
LOS ANGELES - Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport.
CAIRO - A famous Lebanese pop singer, who normally stirs controversy for her seductive dresses and provocative dancing, has now been accused of singing a song with racist lyrics that compares black Egyptians to monkeys.
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WASHINGTON - A 20-foot-long crocodile with three sets of fangs - like wild boar tusks - roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers reported Thursday.
PHOENIX - Petsmart Inc. said Wednesday its profit rose 6 percent in the third quarter as consumers continued to spend money on their pets even amid high unemployment and economic uncertainty.
FERRUM, Va. - Officials in Virginia say a college student was shot to death while collecting frogs for biology class by a hunter who mistook her and her classmates for deer.
BIJNORE - Wildlife authorities have rescued a crocodile from a shop in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnore district.
GULF SHORES, Ala. - An Atlantic bottlenose dolphin is being treated for dehydration and pneumonia after it was found stranded following Tropical Storm Ida's brush with the Alabama coast.
NEW YORK - Animal welfare activists and pet lovers Friday demanded that a dog that survived being thrown off the sixth-story roof of a Brooklyn building this summer be allowed to live.
NEW YORK - Animal welfare activists and pet lovers are demanding that a dog that survived being thrown off a six-story New York building this summer be allowed to live.
SONEPUR - A hostel for pooches in the Sonepur region of Bihar has solved the problems of pet owners looking for a place where they can leave their pets when absent.
LONDON - In a new research, scientists have found out that leatherback turtles prefer to use their right rear flipper rather than their left when laying eggs.