A couple on a whale-watching trip off
Cape Town, South Africa, say they had
a lucky escape when a 10m (33ft)
specimen leapt on to their yach

An orangutan who has learned how to
take photographs with a simple camera
now has around 70,000 fans on the
social networking website Facebo

AP - An Austrian woman on vacation in
Wisconsin is getting rabies shots
after she said she was bitten by
otters while swimming in a lake. Br

The first ever genetic linkage map
for a non-avian member of the Class
Reptilia has been developed.
Scientists writing in the open access
jo