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Animal caretakers of an American zoo are stunned by the new 'look' of lioness Bridget: she has developed considerable man growth.

The 33-year-old Mexican Juan Pedro Franco who is officially known as the thickest man in the world, is busy losing weight. In October 2016 he weighed 595 kilos, now he has already lost 250 kilos. He puts everything to make his big dream come true: to be able to walk normally again.

The tiger is being threatened by planned new infrastructure in several Asian countries. Many roads and railways to build governments, walk through the habitats of protected species. Before the WWF warns.

The hope was never specified, but the authorities did certainly take into account the worst scenario. For six days the 7-year-old Yamato was missing in a remote, densely forested area in addition to bears. Wearing only a T-shirt and jeans in a region where temperatures at night drop to below nine degrees may be called a miracle that the little after that time in good health was recovered.

Arctic toothed whale that washed ashore last week in Belgium is probably died of starvation. That the autopsy on the so-called narwhal shown, reports the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Tuesday.

No later than 2017 should be able to get everyone in Belgium iodine pills in case of a nuclear disaster. The pills must limit the damage to health. The Belgian Health Minister Maggie De Block is working on a distribution system that should stand on its feet at the latest next year, Belgian media reported Thursday.

Hundreds of pupils from a school in the Chinese city of Changzhou are seriously ill has moved since the school for a place next to a former chemical plant.

Belgium is sufficiently prepared for an accident in one of the nuclear plants. The emergency plans are not in order, the SHC judges Tuesday in a report following the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in Japan.

Worldwide there are 23 250 species of plants and animals threatened with extinction. That's 466 more than at the last valuation last summer, according to the new 'red list' of endangered species by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) presents Thursday.