Every year, millions of Australian sheep are crammed onto multilevel, open-decked ships bound for ports in the Middle East and North Africa. When they arrive, they are dragged to shore as if they were sacks of coal, and their throats are cut while they

A recent spike in dead sea otter sightings has caught the attention of wildlife officials, but they say that the 12 sightings on the Washington coast in the past month could simply be the result of more witnesses.

PETA has obtained police records that show that the head of the science department at Tampa, Florida's Freedom High School repeatedly bought gerbils over the last several years and housed them in extremely crowded conditions without adequate food, water,

Last month, I wrote about the world's largest leather exporter leaving the Amazon. This week there is even bigger news. The world's largest meat exporter is leaving.

Tejon Ranch Company (TRC) has received the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) for its PR scheme designed to distract the public from condor-killing real estate development plans.

Tell Massachusetts General Hospital to immediately replace the use of live sheep with validated nonanimal training methods in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses.

Today is Chance the corgi lab's 13th (observed) birthday. And it is good that she is not cognizant of this -- because she would otherwise be understandably miffed that she and I spent a couple hours of it at the vet's office, where she was subjected to

A green turtle has surprised scientists by sticking to British territories in her 550 mile round journey through the Caribbean.

This story is sad and heartbreaking but touching. Far too often I write stories, absolute horror stories about today's youth, killing and abusing innocent animals but here's a story of a teen who loved animals, one stray in particular, so much that he

I still get many questions about how Trooper's doing. You remember Trooper, the pitbull girl that was found tossed in a dumpster, wrapped in a garbage bag in Washington DC, an apparant victim of dogfighting? Well, she's recovered from her injuries,