All news on the topic: Rare animals

Scientists in Hong Kong have discovered a new type of box jellyfish in a muddy pond that turns out to be highly venomous. The tiny creature also comes complete with 24 eyes and has a body that's about an inch long

A rare black fox has been seen wandering the streets of Barry in Wales. The sighting prompted the RSPCA to ask the public to think carefully about keeping foxes as pets due to their wild nature

Ibrahim Shafeeg, 37, from the Maldives, recorded his friend Carmen Canovas Cervello, 30, who works as a nurse, when she was bitten by a 200lb nurse shark while diving off the Vaavu Atoll

The one in 2,500 anomaly led to a mutant calf being born to a struggling heifer. Farmer Leslie Hunewill said: 'As it was dark, windy, and snowy, it wasn’t immediately apparent that the calf had two heads, though it was evident that something was different'

Know for drinking the blood of their prey, the sea lamprey is as elusive as their nickname of vampire fish suggests, having last been seen on the Dutch island of Texel in 2017

A basking shark spotted swimming around St Ives harbour in Cornwall was 'huge' according to a tourist. Olga Bates said seals were hiding from it and it was 'amazing to see'

Scientists have discovered a new species of trapdoor spider in Australia that could cause a bite that is 'physically painful' if they come into contact with humans. Female euoplos dignitas spiders can live up to 20 years

TV historian Dan Snow has appealed to the public after trophy hunters stole the head of a shark from a beach in Hampshire. Scientists hoped to examine the brain of the 'once in a lifetime' find

Jonathan Araiza, 29, from Mexico, said his pet croc Gamora 'is free to roam the house at will'

Dog owner Nikola Zovko, from Arizona in the US, thought it was one of his own cats until he looked closer and noticed it was a small lynx - a forest predator - which hissed at him as he approached

Michael Smith found a Telefomin cuscus possum - a species that was feared extinct in Papua New Guinea - but was left shocked to that he was only able to take photos of the "their skulls"

Terrifying images show the leopard attacking a pedestrian on the street in broad daylight before scaling the walls of a nearby property

The 13ft crocodile was spotted stalking a surfer and a fisherman - who had to chuck rocks at it to stop it approaching - and had to be euthanised due to its "aggressive" behaviour in Queensland, Australia

UFC lightweight champion Makhachev is in Australia, where he will face featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski this weekend in a battle of top pound-for-pound fighters

Dallas-based tech firm Colossal Biosciences has previously announced plans to bring back the lumbering woolly mammoth - which last roamed the earth 10,000 years ago - but recently said it also wants to resurrect the Dodo

The dad-of-two, who was in his his sixties, was bitten by a suspected Eastern Brown Snake - one of the most deadly serpents in Australia and the world - despite being used to handling the reptiles, according to his neighbour

People in Sheffield, South Yorkshire were taken aback over the weekend as a wallaby - more used to Australian sunshine - was seen numerous times in different fields around the city

A school teacher was force to shield pupils from the horror outside as a mum and baby were mauled by polar bear. The incident, in Alaska, US saw the bear creep up on the pair concealed in a snowstorm

But the child was not even slightly intimated by the beasts sitting just inches away behind the glass, and instead reached his hand out towards the lioness, as this video shows.

Katherine Hawkes discovered an enormous sunfish washed up on a Norfolk beach — the peculiar-looking creature is rarely spotted in the UK as they tend to stick to tropical waters

Two Edinburgh Zoo pandas set to return home to China this year 'wouldn't have matched on Tinder.' Male Yang Guang and female Tian Tian failed to breed after arriving in Scotland in 2011