Brasil’s Solution to Animal Extinction : “Cloning”

Brazilian researchers are turning to cloning to help fight the perilous decline of several animal species. The scientists at Brazil’s Embrapa agriculture research agency said this week they have spent two years building a gene library with hundreds of samples from eight native species, including the collared anteater, the bush dog, the black lion tamarin, […]

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Meet Mini “Britain’s Smallest Dog”

This cute puppy, which is no bigger than an iPhone,  is believed to be Britain’s smallest dog. Mini is a Yorkshire terrier chihuahua mix that weighed just 1.3 oz at birth when it was born last week in a liter of seven puppies who all easily tripled her in size. According to the Daily Mail […]

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43-year-old Female Zoo Keeper Killed by a Tiger

  A tiger has escaped its enclosure and mauled a female keeper to death before being shot dead today. This morning a tiger has escaped its enclosure and found its way out of an enclosure at Cologne Zoo in western Germany before, entering an adjacent storage building and attacking a 43-year-old keeper to death before […]

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Mother dog rescued her puppies from a burning house

A mother dog in Chile rescued her five 10-day-old puppies from a house on fire and placed them on fire truck   Chilean newspaper Soy Chile reported that a dog in Chile rescued her 10-day puppies from a burning house then placed them in the back of a fire truck. The mother dog, a German […]

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