Animals and Wildlife

More than a dozen tigers have died after contracting bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam.

Turns out, Nibi the beaver won’t have to learn how to live in the wild on its own after all.

Voting has started in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve.

Jasper and his “Irish twin” sister, Ruby, are the first mandrills to be born at the zoo since 1995.

Even some universities have tried out herds of goats and sheep on campus property. Here’s why.

A zoo in Finland has agreed to return two loaned giant pandas to China eight years early because they are too expensive for the facility to maintain.

Comedian and actress Brittany Furlan Lee, wife of Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, is sharing an urgent message to pet owners after a coyote attack at their Woodland Hills home nearly left her without her beloved dog.

Octopuses have often been thought to prowl the seafloor solo using camouflage. But a new study suggests that some have surprisingly rich social lives.

Scientists said Tuesday they had discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives exclusively in the waters off Australia and New Zealand.

Find ways to support the endangered animals as September concludes.

The rhino population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South Africa, as poaching fed by huge demand for rhino horns remains a top threat.

Pesto is one. Big. Penguin.

A father-son duo was hunting in the Wisconsin woods when they shot and wounded a black bear. Twenty minutes after being shot, the bear mauled the father, leaving his 12-year-old son to step in.

Only a month after the adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable both domestically and internationally.

A 64-year-old woman was preparing to do her evening dishes at her home outside Bangkok when she felt a sharp pain in her thigh and looked down to see a huge python taking hold of her.

Despite recent restoration efforts, water levels in the San Elijo Lagoon in Encinitas are dropping to levels that could affect the mortality of fish and other wildlife in the area, according to the conservation group working to restore the lagoon.

A local conservation group is voicing their concern saying the water levels in the San Elijo Lagoon have created low levels of oxygen for marine life.

Wildlife officials say a river otter attacked and dragged a young child from the dock at a Seattle-area marina and into the water.

Scientists estimate the Amur tiger population is just around 400 to 500 in the wild. They were near the brink of extinction in the 1930s and 1940s but have recovered somewhat since then.

The whale was first spotted in April 2019 wearing a harness and what appeared to be a mount for a small camera and a buckle marked with text “Equipment St. Petersburg”.