A 4-year-old girl lost her life after being mauled by a pack of stray dogs in the Hingna Police Station area on Thursday afternoon. The tragic incident took place around 2 pm under a bridge in Gumgaon, raising serious concerns about the increasing stray dog menace in the region.

The victim has been identified as Harshita Chaudhary.

According to police, Hshita wandered from her home towards a nearby river, assuming that her grandmother had gone there to wash clothes. As she reached the area, she was suddenly attacked by three to four stray dogs, suffering critical injuries.

Her parents were away at work when the incident occurred. After being alerted, police and locals rushed to the scene and took Harshita to a hospital, but doctors declared her brought dead.

The Hingna police have registered a case of accidental death and have sought clarification from the gram panchayat regarding steps taken to control the growing stray dog population.

A 62-year-old Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) ranger, Josphat Mandishara, tragically lost his life after being trampled by an elephant in the Gache Gache area of Kariba.

The incident occurred on Thursday night during a routine extended patrol.

Mandishara was accompanied by two fellow ZimParks rangers and a Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) detail when he returned to the harbor to retrieve their boat. But he encountered a charging elephant that emerged unexpectedly and fatally injured him.

"The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) is deeply saddened to announce the untimely death of 62-year-old Ranger Josphat Mandishara," said ZimParks Spokesperson Tinashe Farawo.

An elderly woman was killed after being attacked by her pet dog - a German Shepherd - at Rawatpur near here, police said on Wednesday.

The dog fatally attacked 90-year-old Mohini Trivedi last Friday. The matter came to light on Wednesday after its owner, Dheer Prashant Trivedi, a mechanical engineer by profession, submitted a request to the veterinary department of Kanpur Municipal Corporation (KMC), seeking a nod to hand over the dog to the family.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (West), Arti Singh, confirmed that Mohini Trivedi was attacked by the German Shepherd at her home in Rawatpur.

"We have not received any written complaint on this matter till now," she said.

However, the DCP has asked her subordinates to probe the matter at their end and submit a fact-finding report to her at the earliest.

A Bibb County infant died after she was attacked by at least one dog inside an Alabaster home.

Shelby County Coroner Lina Evans on Tuesday identified the baby as Ember Southard. She was 6 months old.

Ember was with her grandmother at a relative's home on 10th Street S.W. when the grandmother found the infant unresponsive on the floor.

There were obvious signs of injury to the child, authorities said.

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.
The ancestors of all modern humans split off from a mystery population 1.5 million years ago and then reconnected with them 300,000 years ago, a new genetic model suggests. The unknown population contributed 20% of our DNA and may have boosted humans' brain function.

"The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is astonishing, and it tells us that our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," study co-author Aylwyn Scally, a geneticist at the University of Cambridge, said in a statement.

In a study published Tuesday (March 18) in the journal Nature Genetics, researchers presented a new method of modeling genomic data, called "cobraa," that has allowed them to trace the evolution of modern humans (Homo sapiens).

By applying their new method to modern human DNA data published in the 1000 Genomes Project and the Human Genome Diversity Project, the researchers discovered that there were two main ancestral groups that split around 1.5 million years ago, which they called Population A and Population B.

Just after that split, Population A experienced a bottleneck when the population plummeted and likely lost a significant amount of genetic diversity. But Population A grew over time, and Neanderthals and Denisovans branched off from it.

Then, around 300,000 years ago, Population A mixed with Population B, the researchers found. Their genetic analysis suggests that 80% of the genome of all present-day humans comes from Population A, while 20% of our genome comes from Population B.

Nearly seven months after a crocodile attack almost took her life, Munirpa walked to the estuary outside her home with her husband and her children, ready to brave a reenactment.

Munirpa, who like many Indonesians only uses one name, recounted how one early morning in August, she threw her household garbage into a creek about 50 meters (164 feet) away from her house, as she normally would.

She didn't see what was coming next.

By the time she realized a crocodile had attacked her, the four-meter-long (13-foot) beast had already sunk its teeth into most of her body, sparing only her head. She fought hard, trying to jab its eyes. Her husband, hearing her screams, ran over and tried to pull her by the thigh out of the crocodile's jaws. A tug-of-war ensued; the reptile whipped him with its tail. Fortunately, he saved Munirpa in time, eventually dragging her out of the crocodile's grip.

Ingesting plastic is leaving seabird chicks with brain damage "akin to Alzheimer's disease", according to a new study - adding to growing evidence of the devastating impact of plastic pollution on marine wildlife.

Analysis of young sable shearwaters, a migratory bird that travels between Australia's Lord Howe Island and Japan, has found that plastic waste is causing damage to seabird chicks not apparent to the naked eye, including decay of the stomach lining, cell rupture and neurodegeneration.

Dozens of the chicks - which spend 90 days in burrows before making their first journey - were examined by researchers from the University of Tasmania. Many had mistakenly been fed plastic waste by their parents and built up high levels of plastic in their stomachs.

A 30-year-old man was reported missing after witnesses saw a struggle and heard screams at Wharton Beach, about 500 miles from the capital of Western Australia.

A surfer is feared dead after being attacked by a shark in shallow water on a remote beach in Western Australia, police said Tuesday.

A 30-year-old man from Melbourne was reported missing Monday after witnesses saw a struggle and heard screams at Wharton Beach, a remote area about 500 miles from the state capital, Perth.

A surfboard with bite marks was later recovered from the beach.

Police believe the man was killed during the attack after failing to locate his body.

The abundance of butterflies across the United States fell by an alarming 22% in just 20 years, a new study has concluded.

Between 2000 and 2020, 33% of species (114 of 342) showed significantly declining trends in abundance, according to the research led by Collin B Edwards of Washington State University and published this week in Science.

The results mirror the picture in the UK, where 80% of butterfly species have decreased in abundance, distribution or both since the 1970s.

It comes after Butterfly Conservation recorded the worst-ever results of its annual Big Butterfly Count in 2024 and declared a Butterfly Emergency in the UK, calling on the Government to take tougher action to save wildlife, starting with a total ban on butterfly-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.

A newborn baby was killed by an aggressive sausage dog after vets ignored its owner's concerns and refused to euthanise.

The dachshund clamped its jaws around the tiny baby in her crib in the Russian city of Seversk in Siberia. The newborn had been brought home from the hospital just a month earlier when the dog gripped tightly around her neck and strangled her to death while her parents were asleep.

The vicious dog dispatched the baby without making a sound by barking or growling, meaning the parents woke up the following day to the horrific discovery of their second child dead in her crib. A relative claims the dog had been more aggressive since they welcomed the baby back home.

They called on a vet to euthanise the pooch, but they refused because it was healthy. Instead, the owners kept the dog leashed during the night, hoping it would keep the dog away from their baby - but on the night in question they forgot to tie it up.