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Adrián Simancas was out kayaking with his dad off the coast of Chile on Saturday when the whale engulfed him and his boat and let him go just seconds later.

The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

An Australian teenager from near Brisbane died on Monday after being bitten by a shark nearly 100 yards from the beach, according to reports.

Punxsutawney Phil has forecast six more weeks of winter in North America after seeing his shadow on Groundhog Day.

Simon, a basset hound-cattle dog mix, ultimately beat out 15 other candidates, from all five boroughs, for the highest office in the land, or at least for dogs in NYC.

Last week, New York conservation officials successfully rescued an adult moose from a very precarious situation.

The disease is contagious in livestock like cattle, but poses no risk to humans or food safety.

Campaigners claim that the animals could be killed in a brutal 'clean-up' operation to make cities more presentable to visiting football fans, reports The Mirror .

Animal rescue groups in California have opened their doors to pets as their owners flee the flames of ongoing wildfires.

The mood at the site on Sakhalin Island, Russia suddenly took a turn as from behind a ledge, a mother bear slowly appeared with another cub in tow.

Authorities relax laws to make it easier for hunters to carry out 'emergency shootings' when bears are spotted in populated areas Japan is to relax its strict hunting laws to make it easier to shoot... bears, amid a rise in dangerous encounters with the animals in built-up areas as their numbers increase and their natural habitat dwindles. The government will revise wildlife protection and management laws to give local councils the power to authorise hunters to carry out "emergency shootings" when bears are spotted in populated neighbourhoods, the Kyodo news agency reported.

World's largest hornet, which killed 42 people in China in 2013, has been wiped out in US five years after first being spotted The world's largest hornet, an invasive breed nicknamed the "murder... hornet" for its dangerous sting and ability to slaughter a hive of honeybees in as little as 90 minutes, has been declared eradicated in the US, five years after being spotted for the first time in Washington state near the Canadian border. The Washington and US Departments of Agriculture announced the eradication on Wednesday, saying there had been no detections of the northern giant hornet in Washington since 2021.

Wisdom the Laysan albatross has laid what experts estimate may be her 60th egg, and her first in four years The oldest-known wild bird in the world has laid an egg at the ripe age of about 74, her... first in four years, US wildlife officials said. The long-winged seabird named Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the north-western edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago and laid what experts estimate may be her 60th egg, the Pacific Region of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service said in a Facebook post this week.

The cow, named Beau Lucy, survived after it was struck by a police vehicle in Staines in June.

Gus gained 3.5kg during his 20-day stopover before being released back into the Southern Ocean on Wednesday Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Gus, an emperor penguin who... gained international fame after travelling about 3,000km from Antarctica to the West Australian coast, is on his long way home after being released into the Southern Ocean. Emperor penguins can travel up to 1,600km on foraging trips, when they hunt fish, squid and krill. So Gus's arrival on Ocean Beach, Denmark, on 1 November sparked surprise. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads

A new proposal would restrict the import of hunting trophies, pelts, bone carvings and other items.

A surge in dog attacks has raised alarm bells in South Yorkshire, with chilling videos circulating as the police warned 'someone will die' after there were thirteen incidents in just 48 hours.

The unnamed 28-year-old was found to have concealed beneath his jumper 300 tarantulas, around 100 centipedes and nine stinging bullet ants in small plastic bags.

The 600kg animal was in the deep end and it took Leicestershire firefighters three hours to get her out safely A pregnant cow has had to be rescued by firefighters after she got stuck in a small... swimming pool. The 590kg (93-stone) cow was found in the deep end of the pool in two to three feet of water at a house in Ketton, Rutland.

Nicknamed Hvaldimir - combining the Norwegian word for whale, hval, and Vladimir Putin 's first name - the body of the whale was found floating at the Risavika Bay in southern Norway in September.

Each spring about 20m shearwaters fly 15,000km to Australia from the northern hemisphere. This year, beachgoers have been finding many emaciated carcasses Get our breaking news email, free app or... daily news podcast Thousands of short-tailed shearwaters are washing up dead on Australian east coast beaches and researchers are uncertain of the cause and scale of these seabird "wrecks". Each spring about 20m shearwaters, also called yula or muttonbirds, fly 15,000km back to southern Australia from the northern hemisphere. Since late October, dead shearwaters have been turning up on beaches in south-east Queensland, followed by similar reports in New South Wales and Victoria in recent weeks. Sign up for Guardian Australia's breaking news email

Officials in rural South Carolina say the female rhesus monkeys escaped into the wild after their pen was left open.

The heartbreaking death of Peanut, the beloved Instagram-famous squirrel, has called into question the legality of squirrel ownership in New York.

A 61-year-old man was surfing on Friday morning when a shark bit him, completely severing his leg A shark bit a Maui surfer on Friday and severed his leg, authorities said. The man, 61, was surfing... off Waiehu Beach Park on Friday morning when a shark bit him. Police officers who arrived to the scene first tried to control the bleeding with tourniquets. His right leg was "completely severed just below the knee," Maui county said in a news release.

Wild squirrel that was taken in by Mark Longo seven years ago was confiscated after conservation officials received reports of 'potentially unsafe housing of wildlife' A New York man who turned a... rescued squirrel into a social media star called Peanut is pleading with state authorities to return his beloved pet after they seized it during a raid that also yielded a raccoon named Fred. Multiple anonymous complaints about Peanut - also spelled P'Nut or PNUT - brought at least six officers from the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to Mark Longo's home on Wednesday, Longo said.