Early land animals kept fish-like jaws for millions of years

Last Updated: Sunday, May 5, 2013, 14:30

Scientists have long thought that early land vertebrates developed legs for moving around on land well before their feeding systems and dietary habits changed enough to let them eat a land-based diet.

Cattle import from Pak: Process began 6 months back, says Badal

Last Updated: Saturday, May 4, 2013, 18:04

Zoo officials are helping animals to beat the heat by making special arrangements to protect them from rising mercury levels in Patna.

First land animals kept fish-like jaws for millions of years

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 16:00

Land animals developed legs millions of years before their feeding systems changed enough to let them eat a strictly land-based diet, US paleontologists say.

Beavers use their nose to assess foes

Last Updated: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 12:21

Beavers use scent to detect when trespassers could be a threat, scientists say.

Four held for hunting inside NDA campus

Last Updated: Sunday, March 17, 2013, 21:35

At least four hunters who had intruded the high-security thickly-forested campus of the National Defence Academy for killing wild animals were apprehended.

Strange phallus-shaped creature provides missing link between 2 marine animals

Last Updated: Thursday, March 14, 2013, 14:20

Scientists at the University of Montreal have been able to identify a strange phallus-shaped creature they found in Canada`s Burgess Shale fossil beds, located in Yoho National Park.

Delhi Zoo draws up plan to acquire 500 new animals

Last Updated: Sunday, March 10, 2013, 10:01

Zoo Curator Riyaz Khan said the authorities have plans to increase the number of animals to 2,000 from the current 1,550.

Wild animals research centre to be set up at Vandalur zoo

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 20:40

A `Wild Animals Research Centre` will be soon set up by the Tamil Nadu government in the famous Vandalur zoo near here at a cost of Rs 27.13 crore.

Pippa Middleton went on hunt that killed six boar, nine deer

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 18:39

Pippa Middleton has been criticised by an animal rights group as "desperate to be royal by association" after she went on a hunt where six boars and nine deer were killed.

First land animals shuffled like seals

Last Updated: Monday, January 14, 2013, 22:28

The world`s first 3D reconstruction of a four-legged animal backbone has shown that the early animals on land moved around like seals.

Sunny Leone promotes sterilisation campaign for dogs in Mumbai

Last Updated: Friday, January 11, 2013, 16:36

Actress Sunny Leone is promoting a campaign for the sterilisation of dogs in Mumbai, and this week, she urged people to take care of dogs after they become part of the family.