A federal court in Louisiana dismissed Holy Fight Ministries’ suit challenging the state’s cockfighting ban. The group claimed cockfighting is an “essential part of their religious faith,” but the court ruled a “religious belief — no matter how sincerely held — does not act as an absolute shield against generally applicable laws.”
Read moreThe Fish and Wildlife Service must determine whether the northern long-eared bat should be listed as an endangered species within 18 months of completing its Special Status Assessment of it and two other bat species, a federal court in Washington ruled, finding the agency’s proposed timeline to complete the listing was “unreasonable.”
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Researchers studied the link between the koala retrovirus and higher cancer rates among populations in northern Australia.
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Instagram selfies posted under #gorillatrekking reveal an alarming number of tourists shirking important disease prevention guidance for gorillas in the wild.
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Inmates filed troubling reports of pest infestation in the kitchen of an Alameda County jail, but the county says it has passed its health inspections with flying colors.
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World Health Organization investigators on Wednesday visited a research center in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus, with one member saying they’d intended to meet key staff and press them on critical issues.
Read moreA federal court in Alaska refused to block ConocoPhillips from constructing roads and a gravel mine in the National Petroleum Reserve. Environmental groups claimed the construction would harm a critical polar bear habitat, but the Fish and Wildlife Service determined there was only a “minimal possibility” polar bears would be harmed over the 30-year project.
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Kosher slaughterhouses have found new export markets since the European Union’s highest court last month upheld a law in Belgium’s Flanders region that prohibited slaughtering animals without first stunning them into unconsciousness.
Read moreA federal court in North Carolina ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must develop, by March 1, a plan to release captive red wolves into the Red Wolf Recovery Area in the state.
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As he traveled a historic trail with a pair of mules, John Sears says the California Highway Patrol violated his right to intrastate travel and his “ages-old nomadic way of life” when he was arrested in January last year.
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A large, fossilized marine burrow dating to about 20 million years ago was likely home to giant, ambush-predator worms, according to research published Thursday.
Read moreThe First Circuit upheld a law that bans cockfighting matches in Puerto Rico in a dispute brought by a group of gamecock owners, breeders, private fighting enthusiasts and others who claimed the regulation violated their First Amendment and due process rights and the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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Imprisoned “Tiger King” docuseries star Joe Exotic told a 10th Circuit panel Wednesday he was excessively sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for trying to hire a hitman to kill rival Carole Baskin, hours after his push for a last-minute pardon by outgoing President Donald Trump failed.
Read moreThe new owners of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, which was featured in Netflix’s “Tiger King” documentary, must turn over big cats that are one year old or younger and their mothers to the government, a federal court in Oklahoma ruled.
Read moreThe owner and manager of a Wisconsin roadside zoo are banned from owning or exhibiting animals other than the dogs that are their personal pets and may not work with any business that does so, a federal court in Wisconsin ruled. The Animal Legal Defense Fund sued the zoo for mistreating animals, including two endangered tigers.
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Long extinct, the fearsome dire wolf that roamed North America hasn’t shared a common ancestor with modern wolves in 5 million years — meaning the creature doesn’t belong in the wolf family at all.
Read moreThe 10th Circuit upheld the National Park Service’s determination that a regulation, which generally prohibits the taking of wildlife in national parks, does not apply to park “inholdings.” The National Parks Conservation Association and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition lack standing to challenge the Service’s approval of the 2015 Elk Reduction Program in Grand Teton National Park.
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A former California resident pleaded guilty Monday to a federal criminal charge in the fatal shooting of a northern elephant seal on a Central Coast beach.
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Archeologists have uncovered another puzzle piece of the history behind prehistoric mammals following the discovery of a well-preserved fossil of a curious little creature whose name directly translates to “crazy beast.”
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As neighbors go, the devil you know may be better than the one you don’t. Or so researchers have found with the fiercely territorial red squirrel.
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