Encouraging quietness during zoo trips can help visitors better appreciate their inhabitants and lead to more fulfilling, respectful and informative experiences, a new paper argues.

Forty-three rhesus macaque monkeys escaped from the research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina and they are running loose ...

Alberta Forestry Minister Todd Loewen says the decision to lift limits on trapping and harvesting for animals like wolverines ...

They can provide an example of the kind of appreciation towards which ... cute and intimidating forms and behaviour of these animals. An attitude of appreciation, one which is coterminous with being ...

Every year, animal shelters in the U.S. provide a haven for some 8 million animals. The work of the shelter staff is vitally ...

THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-David Zalubowski EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA — Alberta Forestry Minister Todd Loewen says the decision to ...

Traps have been set up and thermal imaging cameras are being used in an effort to locate the fugitive monkeys, police said.

The gentle animals are part of Portland International Airport's effort to counter travel stress with soothing elements from ...

New York state officials said they euthanized Peanut the squirrel and Fred, a rescued raccoon, so they could test for rabies.

Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a ...

On a crisp November morning on Thursday (November 7) a school in the Romanian village of Sindrilita received some unusual visitors - a rescued chicken, a duck, and their human handlers - to improve ...

Two days after he was seized from his home in New York, Peanut the Squirrel has been euthanized.