Attorneys for one of the country’s largest pet store chains asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to reject a class action claiming the company knowingly sells sick dogs and cats to customers at inflated prices.
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A Berlin zoo says a giant panda whose twin cubs have captured international attention has undergone a CT scan after veterinarians discovered one of his kidneys was smaller than the other.
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A tiny deer-like species not seen by scientists for nearly 30 years has been photographed in a forest in southern Vietnam, a conservation group said Tuesday.
Read moreA Russian goat named Timur whose unusual friendship with a tiger won him nationwide fame, has died, the director of the safari park where the pair lived, said Friday.
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Pangolins are under threat from illegal trafficking networks, conservationists said Wednesday, as they urged southern African countries to step up protection of one of the world’s most smuggled mammals.
Read moreIn a vast valley at the foot of the Andes, Antonio Sazo counts his goats, having ushered them down mountain slopes in the south of the Argentine province of Mendoza, where climate change forces them higher every year in order to graze.
Read moreA Florida woman sued Lee County and her trailer park in federal court for not allowing her to keep four chickens, which are her emotional support animals.
Read moreA civil rights group and the Wyoming ranchers it represents are celebrating the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to walk back its new cattle-tagging regulations after the ranchers challenged the rules in court.
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An Orange County, California, man who broke into a zoo after hours to steal North America’s oldest ring-tailed lemur to keep as a pet was sentenced to three months in federal prison, prosecutors said Monday.
Read moreA New Jersey man pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to transport and sell over 1,000 protected and rare box turtles from Oklahoma as part of a syndicate that moved the animals between the United States and China, federal prosecutors in Tulsa said.
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At least 55 elephants have died in a month in Zimbabwe due to a lack of food and water, its wildlife agency said Monday, as the country faces one of the worst droughts in its history.
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Food workers unions sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court Monday, challenging a Trump administration rule change that would speed up pork production by shifting food quality and safety responsibilities from regulators to workers in pork processing plants.
Read moreAn agricultural trade group filed a federal lawsuit against the state of California on Friday to stop a voter-approved statute that requires more space to farm animals that are raised for consumption, claiming the rules are unconstitutional.
Read moreIn the heart of the nation’s largest and most active oilfield, a tiny lizard remains at the center of a debate about balancing environmental safeguards with the economic lifeblood of Texas.
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Tractor-driving farmers descended on the Dutch capital Tuesday morning, creating the worst traffic congestion in the county’s history to protest calls to reduce emissions by drastically cutting the number of farm animals.
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For more than 90 years, scientists knew of the New Guinea crocodile, but new research revealed Wednesday found another species of crocodile on the island, a 10-foot-long croc that researchers say will help expand our knowledge of the large predatory animals.
Read moreJackson, Mississippi, sued the Jackson Zoological Society and its directors, claiming the zoo owes it $6 million for water, and seeking an order prohibiting the zoo, from removing any personal property or animals from the zoo, in Hinds County Court.
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Officials at a sanctuary in Thailand said Friday they are racing to keep dozens of tigers alive after more than 80 died from disease following their confiscation from a controversial temple.
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Sea urchins’ sharp new teeth are a chip off the old block: Research published Wednesday in the journal Matter confirms how spiny echinoderms sharpen their teeth by breaking them off.
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A new study paints the picture of an extinct 2,200-pound marsupial tapir that roamed the Australian continent for the last 25 million years and was unlike any living mammal previously studied.
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