The bald eagle is officially the national bird of the U.S.
Colombia began a campaign to sterilize Pablo Escobar's wild hippos.
A 57-year-old man received the first transplanted heart from a genetically modified pig.
Scientists discovered the world's first 'true' millipede in Western Australia.
Over 40 camels were disqualified from the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival's beauty pageant.
Two wild boars attacked Shakira in Barcelona while she was in a park, during which they took her bag of personal items.
Thousands of pigeons went missing after a freak weather incident.
Elon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.
Tourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.
The first known animal contracted COVID-19.
Shenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.
An animal was discovered to not need Oxygen to breathe.
Diego, a 100-year-old tortoise, was retired from a breeding program after fathering 800+ children.
North American migratory birds getting smaller, their wings wider due to climate change according to study by University of Michigan published in journal 'Ecology Letters'.
Snake fossils found in Rio Negro Province, Argentina, showed snakes with hind legs that lived over 70 million years ago.
The American Bird Conservancy released a study indicating that the bird population in North America had reduced by around 3 billion.
Dutch ecologists reported that wolves were living in the Netherlands again for the first time in 140 years.
Researchers discovered that as many as 600 million birds die in the US every year after flying into skyscrapers.
Kangaroo fossil research showed that they may have learned to hop over 20 million years ago.
ScienceMag reported that honey bees are found to be able to use colors to help them carry out simple arithmetic.
French couture house Chanel ended its use of fur and exotic skins, following suit of bans by other companies.
A tiger, who hunted and killed 13 people, was killed after a large-scale hunt in Central India.
Science magazine announced that half the killer whale population would likely die due to human pollution.
A report published claimed that the fossils of Dickinsonia were the oldest animals to roam the planet.
A sea swimmer in his mid-twenties was bitten and killed by a shark near Newcomb Hollow Beach, Massachusetts, US.
The last male northern white rhinoceros died.
Singer and actress Barbra Streisand announced she had her pet dog cloned twice.
Twelve camels found to have Botox in their lips were disqualified from a Camel Beauty Contest.
Eight Donkeys were freed from jail after four days in Orai, Uttar Pradesh, India.
A Jellyfish was discovered and became the first-known animal that sleeps and doesn’t have a brain.
Scientists discovered the oldest living Greenland Shark, with an estimated age of 392 years old.
Harambe the Gorilla was shot to death inside his enclosure in the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.
Aaron Carpenter swam with dolphins for the first time.
Kristofer Helgen announced the discovery of the olinguito, a mammal of the raccoon family Procyonidae.
The largest prehistoric penguin was discovered.
For the first time, scientists captured images of a live giant squid in its natural environment.
A 60-ton decomposing whale exploded onto the busy streets of Taipei, Taiwan.
A shark bit off an arm of professional surfer Bethany Hamilton in Hawaiian waters.
The first-ever cloned horse was born in a natural delivery.
The Pyrenean ibex went extinct after the last surviving member of the species was killed by a falling branch.
The first cloned animal from an adult animal cell was announced.
The 'Twentieth Century Dinosaurs' exhibit opened at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History.
A 150 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur embryo was found inside a fossilized egg.
Shergar, the legendary Thoroughbred racehorse, was stolen by gunmen.
A 44 lb lobster was captured off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
Enos, the chimpanzee, was launched into space on the Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission.
A chimpanzee named Ham became the first primate to go to space aboard the US MR-2 spacecraft.
A chimpanzee was observed for the first time making and using tools.
The first gorilla born in captivity, called Colo, was born at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
The US launched the first monkey into space aboard a V2 sounding rocket.
