Conservation workers and volunteers in New Zealand managed to refloat six surviving stranded whales on Tuesday and were hoping the animals would soon swim away into deeper water.

A hiker discovered the pilot whales in two pods about 2 kilometres apart late Saturday on Stewart Island.

A dead whale found with plastic garbage in stomach was buried at an Indonesian beach

An Indonesian farmer was startled to discover a rare "corpse flower" blooming in his plantation on the island of Sumatra.

Two pandas frolicked in their snow-covered enclosure as the first snow this autumn enveloped the Yabuli Ski Resort in Harbin, in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, on Saturday.

Spiders have been keeping busy at Lake Vistonida in north-eastern Greece. Over the last few days large webs, spreading for hundreds of meters across the lake's coastline, have blanketed the entire landscape. The trees and shrubs have been completely wrapped in spooky grey webs.

A girl picked up a stranded shark with her bare hands and released it back into the ocean at Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island.

Passengers on board a whale watching boat were treated to a close encounter with a pod of humpback whales in Monterey Bay on July 13.

A Florida-based British marine biologist, Leigh Cobb, managed to dislodge a hook from the jaw of an endangered oceanic white tip shark in astonishing feet captured on video.

There's almost more plastic than sand on this long, tree-lined beach: Plastic helmets, furniture and the plastic leg of a shop mannequin all stand out of an ocean of blue plastic bags.

This is the Berlin Cathedral, one of the most iconic buildings in the German capital.

North American crayfish that spilled en masse into Berlin's parks last summer will soon be appearing in the city's restaurants after its government authorised fishermen to remove them from public ponds.

Four rare felines, known as the "world's fluffiest cats" have a new home at Chester Zoo, in the north of England.

Australia's New South Wales state government announced that thousands of hectares of land would be set aside as part of measures to protect koalas from being wiped out.

Take a look around the largest Magellanic penguin colony in Patagonia, Argentina.

It has been a long winter with lots of snow. The reindeer herd are now, towards the end of April, ready to move uphill, to their summer pasture.

Penguins recover after zoo treatment to return home.

London's Natural History museum has come alive with an estimated 60 species of butterflies from the Americas, Asia and Africa as "Sensational Butterflies" returns for 2018.

Thousands of butterflies floated and fluttered around an aviary at the San Diego Zoo on Friday March 9th For the opening of the zoo's annual butterfly jungle.

The Portuguese Forestry and Nature Conservation Institute (ICNF) released on Friday two Iberian Lynx, in Guadiana Valley Natural Park, Serpa.