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A boy was killed after being snatched from a boat by a saltwater crocodile in the southern Philippines, as the reptiles' shrinking habitat leads to repeated attacks, authorities said Wednesday.

A Pennsylvania reptile sanctuary shared video of a snake that had to be rescued from itself when it swallowed several inches of its own tail. The Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary shared video of Jesse Rothacker helping out the eastern kingsnake that became a real-life ouroboros by swallowing 10 inches of its own tail. Rothacker said…

A Kenyan regional assembly was forced to adjourn its debate when a whiffy fart was let loose during the plenary. The fart prompted accusations and counter-accusations at the Homa Bay County assembly on Wednesday. "Honourable Speaker, one of us has polluted the air and I know who it is," a lawmaker Julius Gaya told Homa…

An unorthodox Indian music star has won hearts online with her big teeth, lustrous white coat, four legs and melodic braying at mealtime. Emily, a donkey living at an animal shelter in the Indian city of Pune, became an internet sensation last year after a clip of her "singing" went viral. Staff at the centre…

An Indonesian man is walking 700 kilometres (435 miles) from his home on a volcano in East Java to Jakarta in the hope of drawing attention to the archipelago's quickly shrinking forests -- and he is doing it backwards.

A Sharia Court II, sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, on Wednesday sentenced a student, Hafsat Sani, to three months in prison for pouring water on her three-year-old ailing nephew.

A bloody prison clash on Monday between two gang rivals have left dozens dead in a prison, Altamira Regional Recovery Center, in the northern state of Pará in Brazil. A horrific footage seen by The Guardian shows prisoners playfully kicking the heads of their dead rivals across the roof of the jail. The footage emerged…

A wanted man, Stephen Murphy,  sends in a selfie after the police in Lincolnshire, England had posted his mugshot in order to track him. Murphy 33, a former model who claims to be better looking than David Beckham, was unhappy about the mugshot the police had run in the local newspaper in order to find…

Massive swarms of grasshoppers have surprisingly descended on the Las Vegas Strip this week, startling tourists and residents as they pass through town on their northbound migration. Videos posted on social media show swarms of the bugs, called pallid-winged grasshoppers, converging on the bright neon lights of the Strip and sidewalks covered with the insects.…

Indian police made four arrests on Friday after a mob of villagers brutally beat to death a tigress that had attacked local people.

The Ugandan government has announced its plans to begin the issuance of birth certificates to cows in the East African country. This was made known by the country's Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Mr Vincent Ssempijja who confirmed this while speaking at the official opening of the National Agricultural Show at the Source of the…

There is no doubt that snakes are considered as dark creepy creatures on a general scale that should be avoided at all costs *save those who consider it pets.* While it is true that a large number of people suffer from ophiophobia or herpetophobia, that is, the fear of snakes, in a rather strange incident,…