Nat Geo’s incredible images of 2016
FROM polar bears to terrifying tornadoes and stunning meteorite strikes, iconic magazine National Geographic has revealed its best pictures of the year.
FROM polar bears to terrifying tornadoes and stunning meteorite strikes, iconic magazine National Geographic has revealed its best pictures of the year.
A ZOOKEEPER giving a demonstration about not showing fear has screamed for his life after a lion broke through a fence and charged him.
JUST when you thought 2016 couldn’t get any worse, comes this terrible news about giraffes.
JUST when you thought 2016 couldn’t get any worse, comes this terrible new about giraffes.
BIZARRE images of a tiny piglet born with the face of a monkey have baffled not only locals but social media users too.
A MODEL has told of the moment she was casually waving at people, unaware they were desperately trying to tell her a huge shark was behind her.
A HUGE, mysterious dead zone — 60,000 sq km virtually devoid of oxygen and life — has been discovered in Australia’s northwest.
IN THE flamingo world, it’s all about your dance moves. And the better the moves from the male, the better chance of scoring.
A YOUNG penguin took the wrong direction when swimming through Sydney this morning, ending up in a stormwater drain in the city’s inner west.
THIS 25 million-year-old fossil answers questions about why whales are the biggest creatures in the world.
A CANADIAN woman thought she was shelling out $700 for a hairless Sphynx. But two weeks after she bought the kitten, it started sprouting fur.
BEES and other pollinators are responsible for 1.4 billion jobs worldwide and scientists are warning that both jobs and lives could soon be lost.
TWO men charged over the alleged theft of three monkeys from a wildlife park south of Sydney — but police are still on the hunt for one rare pygmy marmoset.
THIS mother and son got the surprise of their life in their Adelaide backyard when a koala joey climbed off its mother’s back and onto a boy’s arm.
THIS is the skin-crawling moment a spider as big as a turtle terrified a group of tourists as it scurried out of a bush and straight towards them.
HOW National Geographic photographers took control of Instagram sharing their most incredible photos with the world in real time.
IT’S got eight legs and way too many eyes but a new spider has been found with a never before seen method of hiding from predators and fooling prey.
SEE the incredible moment an American Bald Eagle, hunting for lunch, drags a huge salmon from the river in Alaska.
THE photographer had to trek across snow and ice to get up close to his subject. But the result was worth the wait and is captivating the world.
WATCH VIDEO: A deer that became trapped inside a US store made a dramatic exit when it came crashing through the front window.
A MAN has been taken to hospital with dehydration after being attacked by a goat for about an hour at a Queensland property.
CHECK out these toothy grins as thrillseeking tourists grab some selfies with huge great white sharks in Port Lincoln, South Australia.
A MONSTER hammerhead caught by a couple mates off a beach in Western Australia could be an unofficial record.
IT IS the stuff of nightmares for every person with even the slightest of snake phobias.
TWO penguins got into a vicious punch-up after one discovered his “wife” having an affair with another penguin. And the internet went crazy.
AN orang-utan has been found barely alive, riddled with pellets from an air rifle, some of which have caused him to go blind. But this is not a rare case.
IN A once-in-a-decade phenomenon, millions of flying creatures have descended as part of what Queenslanders are calling a “butterfly blizzard”.
THIS man brushes his pet Crocodilia’s teeth every morning and this isn’t even the strangest thing the dynamic duo get up to.
DON’T like the idea of a face full of frog genitalia? Then don’t mess with a newfound Australian amphibian that has a salacious way of startling attackers.
A PICTURE of a giant Huntsman spider snapped at a southeast Queensland animal rescue centre has taken the world by storm.
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