Picture Credit: AsiaWire Wildlife officials in Pakistan have defended charging eye-watering amounts to allow foreign hunters to kill a rare local species of mountain goat with spectacular curling horns once loved by British hunters as a trophy. The markhor is a large mountain goat which is also the national animal…
Picture Credit: CEN/Nick Saner These sick snaps shared by a US trophy hunter show him posing next to a dead and extremely rare bighorn sheep reportedly shot in Mexico. The hunter identified as Nick Saner allegedly killed the bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) in Tecate, in the northwestern Mexican state of…
This 22-year-old lad who suffers from a rare disease with only around 70 cases reported worldwide has virtually met a girl who suffers from the same illness on social media, and is now hoping they can meet in person after writing her romantic letters. CEN/@matifernandezb Matias Fernandez Burzaco, 22, lives…
An endangered ray fish has been born in a Croatian aquarium for the first time in 20 years and the cute little fellow has been winning over visitors with his beaming ‘smile’. The thornback ray (Raja clavata) was born on 13th January at Aquarium Pula in the north-western Croatian port…
Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Asia Wire Report This is the Chinese teenager whose mouth and lips began rotting away after contracting a skin disease so rare none of her doctors had ever heard of it before. The unnamed female patient, 17, had symptoms including acute kidney failure and vomiting, and…