An autopsy has shown Berlin's famous zookeeper Thomas Dörflein died of a heart attack, but Germany daily <i>Bild</i> reported Wednesday that Knut’s surrogate father was also suffering from cancer.
Lizard-loving thieves broke into the Cologne zoo over the weekend to steal four highly poisonous Gila Monsters. Police are calling for help to find the endangered animals.
For the last six days, a grief-stricken mother gorilla in the Münster zoo has refused to let go of her dead baby. Now the controversial anatomist Gunther von Hagens has said he wants the body for his plastination exhibitions, daily <i>Bild</i> reported on Friday.
Brandenburg has set up a trial water buffalo ranch with the aim of creating a new branch of local agriculture and healthy eco-systems in the wetter areas of the eastern German state.
A humpback whale – dubbed "Humpy" and seen off Germany's Baltic Sea coast two weeks ago – has still not found its way back to deeper, colder waters amid new sightings near Rostock.
Residents of the tiny German town of Vettelschoss alerted police to what they thought were female screams coming from the woods on Monday evening – but after police sent out a helicopter they discovered the noises were coming from mating badgers.
The Hagenbeck Tierpark zoo in Hamburg is in mourning on Thursday after one of their orangutans took a deadly fall and drowned when a visitor tried to feed her.
German scientists have discovered a Southeast Asian tree shrew that likes to drink beer, but apparently doesn’t get drunk no matter how much it hits the sauce.
Mysterious tapping noises late on Tuesday night caused residents in an apartment building in Wetter in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia to alarm police, who broke into the empty apartment only to find an albino rabbit amusing himself in his cage, police reported on Wednesday.
Berlin's mayor calls the German capital "poor but sexy." <b>Roger Boyes</b>, the Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, might argue "poor but foxy" would be more apt.
A German woman in Mülheim in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia has been rooming with her three-legged pet llama for the last two years, city officials said Friday.
Prosecutors are investigating whether the Magdeburg Zoo's decision to kill three tiger cubs because they were not pure-blooded violated animal welfare laws.
The hordes expected to visit Germany’s latest polar bear cub sensation, Snowflake at the zoo in Nuremberg, didn’t materialize over the holiday weekend, as people were put off by all the hype.
Snakes on the loose sent police scrambling in two German cities on Friday as a trio of tiger pythons invaded a post office and a giant boa constrictor slunk under a garage.
Women can significantly reduce the chance of their children developing allergies by paying regular visits to dairy farms and breathing in the air, according to researchers in Germany.
Police are likely to file charges against the shepherd of a flock of sheep that derailed a German ICE train and injured 19 people over the weekend, a Koblenz police spokesman said on Monday.
German railway workers prepared to remove a demolished high-speed train from a tunnel on Monday following a harrowing accident that left 19 people injured and several sheep dead over the weekend.
The stench of rotting flesh is expected to waft over Germany's former capital this weekend as a stinky giant flower unfurls in the University of Bonn's botanic garden.
