All news on the topic: Rare animals

The invasice species of hammerhead worms are extremely hard to get rid of with experts advising you either smother them with salt or alcohol or even freeze them before binning them

A Florida sheriff's department has begged citizens to stop calling 911 when they spot herds of manatees near the shore. 'They are more than fine,' a statement reads

In hilarious footgae, the mighty creature could be seen just a few feet from the Eurospin supermarket in Calabria, southern Italy, before its circus owners retrieved it and brought it back "home"

Kefir, an enormous pet cat, who is the same size as a two-year-old child, has amassed thousands of fans online thanks to his sweet looks and larger than life personality

Joseph Lee recognised the incredibly rare orange Canadian lobsters at the wholesale fishmongers and knew he had to step in and save them both from being cooked

Biologists have recorded an 'exceptional' new species of crocodile newt in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, and it's already set to be on the Red List of endangered animals

A woman in Oklahoma City has said she is scared most nights by a bang on her back door by a mysterious winged creature. Carol Dillin says the creature 'really frightening'

Heartbreaking footage showed the isolated killer whale Kiska banging her head against the tank at MarineLand in Canada - she spent twelve years of her life in cruel captivity

Puzzle lovers and game players need eagle-eyed vision to spot the snow leopard in this nature snap in ten seconds or less. Be warned, these predators have incredible natural camouflage

Vanilla the chimp was once kept in a small cage but now, heartwarming footage shows the moment a delighted Vanilla was welcomed into her new three-acre island in Florida

A Texas woman rescued an animal on the side of a San Antonio street one evening last week, thinking she was performing a good deed. But then the 'strange creature' attacked her

The owner of Black Gold Fossil Charter, Michael Nastasio, had been looking for shark artifacts in Venice, Florida, all day but to no avail. However, on his last trip he struck gold

Marine experts have spotted 'Carpet Sea Squirt' under several pontoons and boats in Jersey - and said that little can be done once the organism is well-established

Villagers in the Bolivian city of Oruro have blamed a recent spate of animal deaths on the mythical creature known as the chupacabra after finding the carcasses emptied of blood

Footage captured by a teen showed the moment a shark swam just feet away from a dad and son swimming in Alabama. A range of different types of sharks live in the water nearby

Darya Ulyanova, 26, was left in hospital with "severe lacerations" after one of the world's biggest tigers attacked her while she was going to the toilet in a bush in Ussuriysk, in Russia's Far East

John Riddle, 58, from Florida, US, attempted to use a pool net to fish the distressed iguana out from the toilet bowl. However, he failed to capture the reptile and was forced to call in experts

Anat Primo, who usually lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, was wandering along a beach on the paradise island of Ko Lanta when she spotted the grisly remains of a sea creature that resembled "something out of a horror movie"

Terrified villagers chased the big cat as it entered a house in Marauli Katheria village in India's Uttar Pradesh district before it went on to injure six other people

The Cotswold Wildlife Park has become the only zoological collection in the world to successfully breed the species in the last year

The endangered bird is the very first chick of the breeding season born to parents Pinny and Bruce at Edinburgh Zoo in an important step to protect the rare species

Rumours of a large feline lurking in the Ceredigion area of Wales emerged as far back as the 1970s when a series of sheep were found eaten

Ya Ya has called Memphis Zoo home for the last 20 years - but she's on her way back to China after the panda loan agreement ended and following the death of her mate, Le Le, in February

Matthew Hoheisel revealed his 13-year-old son, Westin, discovered the two-faced calf at the family farm in Minnesota, US, which had four eyes, two mouths and two noses

The little swine was born on a ranch owned by a pig farmer, Mariolys Herrera, in Guantanamo Province, Cuba, at dawn on April 18 - in an ultra rare case