Animal Defense League officials are asking for the public's help with information that can help locate the person they said intentionally doused a cat with battery acid.Barnabus was found a week ago.

What a great story to start off a Wednesday morning. Buffy, a German Shepard, was honored posthumously by the Humane Society of the United States. In 2007 she stopped a gunman who was robbing her owner a gunpoint, getting shot twice in the process.

BARCELONA (AFP) - From tiny tree frogs to gorillas, wild animals already facing extinction due to habitat loss, pollution and hunting must now cope with the added threat of virulent disease, conservation scientists said Tuesday.

A TEENAGE girl in the Northern Territory woke when a snake that had slithered into her bed and wrapped itself around her neck bit her on the arm. Ashlee Findlay, 16, who is afraid of snakes, spiders and centipedes, spent two hours at a hospital after t

Britain's native red squirrels will become extinct in just ten years' time if urgent action is not taken, experts have warned.

Animal Seen During Research Cruise BOSTON -- A rare adult blue whale was spotted over the weekend 15 miles off Gloucester during a research cruise. Researchers at the Whale Center of New England said that they were startled to find the whale on Sunday

Sea otters are a keystone species, filling such an important niche in ocean communities that without them, entire ecosystems can collapse. Scientists are finding, however, that sea otters can have even further reaching effects that extend to terrestrial c

One of the world's smallest seals - the Caspian - has joined a growing list of mammal species in danger of extinction. October 2008. Scientists from the University of Leeds have documented the disastrous decline of the seal - a species found only in the

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Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world's mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn't good."Our results paint a bleak picture of the global status of mammals worldwide," the team led by Jan Schipper of the International Unio