The plight of baby kangaroos and koalas orphaned by Australia’s bushfires has prompted a sewing frenzy in France, where an appeal for cloth pouches for the animals has reaped thousands of contributions.
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The days of passengers bringing their pets on airplanes as emotional-support animals could be ending. The U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday proposed that only specially trained dogs qualify as service animals, which must be allowed in the cabin at no charge.
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Fighting for the dwindling lives of a lesser known species, wildlife conservation groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday in hopes of adding pangolins to the list of endangered species.
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Jeffrey Lendrum spent three decades living as the so-called “Pablo Escobar of eggs,” smuggling the fragile shells from the nests of falcons and other birds of prey to wealthy international clients.
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The food market where China’s deadly virus surfaced was a smorgasbord of exotic wildlife ranging from rats and wolf pups to species linked to previous pandemics such as civets, according to vendor information and a Chinese media report.
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Dozens of injured koalas arrive at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park’s makeshift animal hospital each day in cat carriers, washing baskets or clinging to wildlife carers.
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A German veterinarian has lost his appeal over the death of a champion dressage horse belonging to a member of the Swarovski family.
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Greenland’s medieval Norse society vanished from the Earth in the 15th Century after they hunted walrus populations to near extinction, researchers said Monday in a possible explanation for the mysterious disappearance.
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Hundreds cheered as the three beauty contest finalists strolled out into the middle of the grounds and raised their painted trunks to the judges — symbols of all that is admired and denounced at Nepal’s annual elephant festival.
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Three women are under investigation in Germany for launching paper sky lanterns for the new year which apparently ignited a devastating fire that killed more than 30 animals at a zoo, officials said Thursday.
Read moreA powerful Argentine big-game hunter and a sociable French water dog have made the American Kennel Club’s list of recognized breeds.
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It’s a rite of passage in schools across the U.S.: frog dissection.
Read moreAnimal control officers are entitled to qualified immunity individually in a dispute brought by a dog owner who claims the officers violated his due process rights when they put his German shepherd puppy up for adoption and spayed it without scanning it for a microchip, the Eighth Circuit ruled.
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The Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City is celebrating its second baby giraffe of the year, already as tall as a full-grown human.
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Slamming the “fetid and dystopic conditions” of a Maryland zoo, a federal judge ordered Thursday that any animals that managed to survive must be transferred to a sanctuary.
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At least two species of Madagascar lemurs teetering on the brink of extinction because of deforestation could be pushed over the edge by climate change, researchers said Monday.
Read moreFarm Sanctuary et al. sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court, claiming a final regulation, the Slaughter Rule, will allow nearly all of the pigs slaughtered nationwide to be slaughtered quickly, with little federal oversight, posing risk to animal welfare, and consumer health and safety.
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At a stately museum in Mexico City, priceless paintings by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera share pride of place with an unruly pack of hairless black dogs: Mexico’s prized xoloitzcuintle.
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Harbor porpoise mothers rid themselves of human-made neurotoxic chemicals found in the ocean by transferring the dangerous mixture to their calves, according to research released Monday.
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Russian scientists on Monday showed off a prehistoric puppy, believed to be 18,000 years old, found in permafrost in the country’s Far East.
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