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More than 10,000 snakes bound for China were seized recently in Burma. The Associated Press, 1/20/12 YANGON - Forestry officials in central ...

According to a news reel from China, a young boy there possesses the ability to see in the dark. Like a Siamese cat's, his sky-blue eyes...

ScienceDaily (Jan. 31, 2012) — The Wildlife Conservation Society has just announced that a group of volunteers working in northeast China h...

BEIJING, Feb. 1 (UPI) --  China says its population of white-headed langurs, one of the world's rarest monkeys, has grown in the last de...

A Hong Kong conservation group said Saturday it has set up a  DNA bank  for the rare Chinese white dolphin, also known as the pink dolphin, ...

Police investigating the sudden death of a billionaire fear he was killed when he ate the poisoned flesh of a cat. Tycoon Long Liyuan died i...

WUHAN, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Central China's Shennongjia Nature Reserve, the rumored hometown of a Bigfoot-like ape-man, was named one of ...

Chinese farmer is claiming that a goat-riding monkey keeps sneaking onto his land to steal his vegetables.  Ye Shu, of Donguan, Guangdong Pr...

Rare black-throated robins have been recorded in the Qinling mountains, north central China, by scientists. The 14 new sightings double the ...

A piglet from Changtai County in southern China's Fujian Province has been born with three eyes and two mouths. Xiao Jintu, owner of a l...

Tiger bone wine sale December 2011. The Chinese Government has banned a private auction of 400 bottles of tiger wine, made from crushed tige...

Chinese auction flaunts tiger trade ban December 2011. A Chinese auction of traditional health tonics, scheduled for Saturday 3 December i...

Tiger skins traded openly in China November 2011. One year on from the International Tiger Conservation Forum in St Petersburg, tiger camp...

People living in a Chinese village have been so moved by a dog that has been guarding the grave of its deceased owner they plan to build a ...

Pulled straight from the ground in Anshun, Guizhou province, the knotweed appeared to have thick protruding roots in areas that looked all ...

One of the world's rarest big cats has been captured on camera in China for the first time since 1949. An Amur leopard, also known as ...

A featherless penguin abandoned by its parents just days after its birth has been accepted back into the family. The successful re-introduct...

This tiny porker has an excuse for making a pig of himself at mealtimes - he really does have two mouths to feed. The two-month-old youngste...

(Reuters) - Virologists warned on Tuesday that there was no vaccine against a mutant strain of H5N1 bird flu now spreading in China and Vie...

China’s bear farms, where for decades bile has been extracted from the endangered animals in horrific conditions, have been condemned by e...