Excellent essay by Karen Davis founder of United Poultry Concerns. Karen has been taking care of rescued chickens,turkeys, ducks and other fowl for 20 years.

Just a quick note of warning my friends, make sure you're not drinking anything that could damage a computer or keyboard. This one is a funny one and I just want to warn you of the potential of spewing liquid threw laughter!

On her very first try, the Cincinnati Zoo's 8-year-old cheetah, Sarah, broke a land-speed record for mammals last week -- and, shortly thereafter, celebrated by breaking her own record in her second run.

A Shih Tzu mother of three puppies has taken one extra baby -- a squirrel -- under her paw and is raising it as her own, our colleagues at KTLA report.

A new report by Maplecroft, a world leader in global risk assesment, lists the countries at the greatest and the least risk of climate change problems.

For the first time in over a century, a black rhino calf has been born in the Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve.

The latest IUCN Red List assessment has found that one in six Mediterranean mammals faces regional extinction - due to human activities.

The Arctic as we know it may soon be a thing of the past," says Eric Post, associate professor of biology at Penn State University. Post leads a large, international team that carried out ecosystem-wide studies of the biological response to Arctic warming

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have traced the evolution of a species of tropical butterfly, infected with a bacterium that kills males, by comparing current butterfly populations with more than 200 museum specimens.

Yellowstone National Park has completed a bison count. The population is now estimated to be 3,300, based on a series of aerial surveys conducted in June and July. This comprises 2,800 adult and yearling bison, and 500 calves of the year.