A selection of photos of unlikely animal friends.

Bentley described snowflakes as "tiny miracles of beauty" and snow crystals as "ice flowers." He was the first person to argue that no two snowflakes are alike.

A highway in New Zealand has been closed, after a truck left 16-kilometre long trail of offal. The offal is 30 centimetres thick in some places and several cars which hit the waste spun out of control.

Neighbors along Jasper-Lowell Road are being cautious after a cougar ran past a teen girl waiting for the school bus Thursday morning, not far from where a dead cougar was found last year.

Lost pets in shelters that had been implanted with a microchip were reunited with their owners in almost three out of four cases, according to an Ohio State University study. Compared with other pets found at shelters, the return rate for microchipped

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Animal activist and vegetarian Brigitte Bardot has never been hesitant to express her opinions about the fur industry. And during a recent interview when she was asked what she thought about women who wore fur, Bardot responded, "The women who carry

The largest mass-extinction in the world is considered to have happened about 252 million years ago due to quick global warming or climate change. A new study shows how some ancestors of mammals are believed to have survived this mass-extinction

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A St. Petersburg woman was charged with driving under the influence after police say she drove her sport utility vehicle into her neighbor's house.

Every time Born Free USA attempts to pass laws aimed at improving the welfare of captive birds, without fail those that exploit birds for financial gain fight us all the way, claiming that the commercial bird industry can and does regulate itself. Plus,