Gillian Taylor, of Brinklow, Warwickshire, did not expect to stumble across the scene in her back garden, never having seen a snake at her pond before.
PAUL DE GELDER: One moment I was swimming across Sydney Harbour, the next my right leg was clamped in the jaws of a 9ft bull shark. It was the moment I had been dreading all my life.
A mass of spider crabs gathered in the shallow water at the popular tourist hotspot of Porthgwidden Beach in St Ives, Cornwall to shed their shells before returning to the depths of the sea.
The photos, taken by 49-year-old Eyal Amer in Israel, show in stunning detail the gecko looking down the throat of its predator, a white-throated kingfisher, just seconds before it was eaten.
The summer of 2022 is shaping up to be a bumper season for both pink and sockeye salmon in British Columbia rivers, with one veteran Indigenous fisherman reporting the biggest catches of sockeye in decades.
Two ships operated by the company Hvalur hf. left port in Reykjavík in late June to begin the whaling season, which sees dozens of the Fin whales slaughtered for their meat.
So I'm driving the other night and pass by a skatepark. As I'm going along the car in front of me suddenly brakes ... a fox was running across into the skatepark. That would have scared a few kids and teens if it were a few hours earlier in the evening.
The next night I visit my cousin's place. They have a nearby forest a few minutes away on foot. He points from his deck down into the neighbor's yard. 3 fawn (baby deer) are grazing on some of the plants, flowers, grass, etc. The neighbors tend to be away alot so they can peacefully wander around in that yard. Cousin goes - "They don't bother with my yard. My kids are making too much noise on the trampoline and bouncy castle ... or racing bikes / shooting hoops out front", lol.
He's showing us around the yard and has a laugh. Says he was taking out the garbage to the side of the house in early-July. As he opens the side fence gate there's a bear about 15 feet away slowly walking in his direction. I asked him how big a bear, and he was like - "Big enough - definitely wasn't a cub" - Cousin freezes, slowly backs away and thinks "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK THAT!"
I asked him if any bears had ever crossed paths with the deer / fawn and he said he would keep an eye out, lol. Said it definitely scares the shit out of you when they're wandering around looking for food, and then you accidentally startle them & yourself in the process.
Orca sightings on Vancouver Island aren't rare, but they're always thrilling, and that was especially true for a group of aquaculture workers on the North Island this week.
Charlie, a seven-year-old yellow Labrador retriever, ended up in second place in the large-to-very large dogs category. This year's event was in Pacifica, California, 15 miles from San Francisco, Saturday.
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The Cincinnati zoo is celebrating the birth of a full-term hippopotamus that is a sibling to Fiona, who became a global celebrity when she was born prematurely in 2017.
ALPACA ADVENTURE: Father and son alpacas Boogie and Woogie went on a more than two-hour trek through various neighborhoods after escaping their enclosure in California.
A host of studies examining animals in their ecological environments suggest that they have evolved to use numbers in order to exploit food sources, avoid predators, and reproduce.