After traveling to 29 countries, Oscar the dog may win the title of most intrepid canine explorer. Oscar and his owner Joanne Lefson, traveled to all five continents, posing for photos in front of famous landmarks, like the Great Wall of China, France's

It pays sometimes to be a big dog, like when a blizzard hits and you need to burn off energy. The President's Portuguese Water Dog got to enjoy the snowstorm that hit Washington, D.C. over the weekend. Long legs pay off.

A little girl holds the muzzle of her dog in her hands near an enclosure made for the pet in a partially built building in Kabul, Afghanistan.

"We do our walking up and down this little area right here. So, it would be right next door to the tiger cages." Neighbors Sammie Thompson and Andrea Kemp say when they got word of a proposed tiger sanctuary Thursday, their hearts sank.

Canada's Olympic mascots are meant to be cute and cuddly, but visit one anti-sealing website and you'll see Quatchi angrily wielding a club and blood dripping from Miga's snarling jaws. The federal government is getting antsy about the beating it's

Plants that eat rats, slimy alien-looking fungi, leaves that dance all by themselves and flowers that smell like the rotting corpse of a horse: all of these wonders of nature are among the most rare, exotic and unusual plant species in the world.

A Los Angeles reptile salesman facing up to 20 years' jail for allegedly smuggling 15 protected lizards from Australia to the US by strapping them to his chest is "hoping for a favourable outcome". Michael Plank, 40, entered a not guilty plea to the

In the wild, you'd never expect to see a tiger, a lion and a bear congregating together (in fact, one of these creatures typically dwells in an entirely different ecosystem), but specific situations have proven that typically incompatible species can

Unidentified deep-sea fish, octopus and squid are caught at the final stop of the 2009 Seamount expedition conducted by IUCN scientists.

Stretching into impossible poses these photogenic felines could be the most relaxed cats of all time.