Wildlife

Suspected rabid jackals attack campers, leaving 11 injured including child bitten on face

"My daughter Alice screamed, ‘It hurts! It hurts!’ I quickly turned on the light, and her entire face was covered in blood. I was terrified,” said Elena, the mother of a child injured in the attack.

A jackal is seen at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv, on September 03, 2022.
THE RISING SUN, the scent of spring flowers on the breeze, the quiet. No matter how dark it still is, no matter how tired I am, I find myself drawn out the door before the rest of the world is awake.

Hiking the Holy Land: Solitary creatures at the edge of the wilderness

Fan Tailed Raven, Mitzpe Shalem, Dead Sea.

'Personality determines life or death': Bold ravens near humans die younger - study

A wolf that went missing after escaping from its enclosure in O-world zoo, roams in the zoo premises in Daejeon, South Korea April 8, 2026 in this still image of surveillance footage video playing on a screen.

Elusive wolf in South Korea captured and returned to zoo after nine days on the run


Death toll climbs to 4 in California's largest wildfire this season

Since erupting on Friday, the McKinney fire has charred more than 56,000 acres of drought-parched timber, tall grass and brush, officials said on Tuesday.

 A member of a search and rescue team walks along an area destroyed by the McKinney Fire near Yreka, California, US, August 1, 2022.

Scientists find connection between H5N1, mysterious seal deaths in Maine

The US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Inspection Service's National Veterinary Services Laboratories found that four seals tested positive for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1.

A seal pup

Stone Age jewelry found in Russian burial site made of human bones - study

Out of 37 samples of bone-made jewelry tested, 12 were found to be made of human bone, a third of all tested remains.

 Human skeleton bones discovered in a previously unknown Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Norfolk are seen at the offices of MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) in Northampton, central England November 16, 2016

109 live animals found in women's luggage in massive airport wildlife trafficking bust

This incident, while dramatic, is not unusual. The Bangkok Post identified the women as Nithya Raja, 38, and Zakia Sulthana Ebrahim, 24.

Indian crested porcupine

Diversity of animal life during dinosaur period not climate related - study

Researchers found a clear change in conditions in the middle of the dinosaur-era Ischigualasto rock formation in Argentina that were better explained by known data then by climate change.

 A handout illustration shows a sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Montana 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period.

North America bird flu outbreak continues to spread

New cases of avian influenza have been reported in domestic flocks in New York and Indiana.

 A closed road leading to a chicken farm is seen after an outbreak of bird flu in the village of Upham in southern England February 3, 2015.

Global wildlife population declines could be worse than we imagined - study

A new Israeli study is especially pessimistic about the current state and future of wildlife populations. 

 A group of meerkats.

First sloth born in Middle East to have gender reveal Jan 29

The sloth, which was born on October 16, 2021, has yet to be revealed to the general public.

 The Green Planet – Dubai's baby sloth, the first of its kind born in the Middle East.

Polar bears eating reindeer: normal behavior or result of climate change?

Climate change may be forcing polar bears to change their diets, researchers have found.

POLAR BEARS are seen within the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Bird flu outbreak spreads, Bennett instructs close tracking

After hundreds of thousands of hens were put to death, bird flu killed thousands of cranes in one of Israel's worst wildlife disasters in its history.

Cranes gather during the migration season on a foggy morning at Hula Nature Reserve, in northern Israel, November 17, 2020.