Critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper chicks hatch in the UK for the first time after eggs are imported from the Russian Far East.

Plans by Namibia's government to donate 148 wild animals to Cuba have been criticised by an animal rights group in neighbouring South Africa.

Scientists studying how North America was first settled find stone spearheads and darts in Oregon, US, that date back more than 13,000 years.

Research by academics at two universities conclude that the common belief of lying eyes is a myth.

A new assessment of Madagascar's lemurs shows they are far more threatened than previously thought.