15-year-old friends die in quarry swimming tragedy 'as one tried to save the other'.

These are the first pictures of two 15-year-old friends who died in a swimming tragedy when one apparently tried to save the other at an abandoned quarry.

Crayfish cuts off own claw to escape being boiled alive in bowl of soup.

This is the remarkable moment a crayfish escaped certain death in a bowl of soup by chopping off one of its claws.

Tragic whale dies after being washed up on beach with 80 plastic bags inside stomach.

A whale died with 80 plastic bags in its stomach after it mistook them for food and became too sick to hunt.

Shocking pictures show plastic-filled stomachs of dead seabirds washed up on Pacific island.

Shocking images show two young ­dead albatrosses, while the plastic that killed them glints in their rotted stomachs.

Why Steal From Me? farmer asks squirrel.

Footage of the animal torture in southern China was spread online and now animal activists