There are 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac - rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and ...

The Chinese calendar is based upon a 12-year zodiac cycle - a system used for around 2,000 years - and animals represent the years, possibly because zodiacs originally involved the worship of animals.

The Chinese paddlefish belongs to an ancient lineage of paddlefish that has been around for at least 100 million years. But in early 2020, a study concluded that the species has recently gone ...

Pig The pig is one of the luckiest animals in the Chinese zodiac and is said to symbolise wealth and luck. Pig years in the Chinese zodiac are 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007 ...

Edina Delic, from Dublin, spoke with Metro about the conditions in China's oldest public zoo in the Xicheng District, that ...

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We often come across videos of animals performing adorable antics on the internet. Now, a clip of a zoo celebrating a walrus' ...

The small animals, whose scales are coveted for use in Chinese medicine, are now among the world’s most trafficked mammals. A Temminck’s ground pangolin named Tamuda searches for a meal of ...