An otter has been killed in an illegal fishing trap in the River Tamar.

It is a scene that has left a lot of people stunned. A home in the Sand Springs area of rural Jackson County was discovered, covered in almost one hundred dogs, some dead, some alive.! The yard is littered with their corpses, animals dying because

Adam doesn't seem to mind his life behind bars. He and the other dogs spending the next several months living with prisoners at the base brig here are well-fed, well-groomed and given positive reinforcement. Life is much better here -- where members

PORTLAND, Maine - Blustery winds and frigid temperatures couldn't shake the maternal instincts of a bald eagle caught on a 24-hour camera while protecting her newly laid egg in a nest perched 70 feet above the Down East coast.

March 16, 2007 -- As caretaker of the state's 15,000 black bears, which won't come out of hibernation for another six weeks, Ternent must figure out the optimal ratio of bears to people. That number will determine how many bears need to be killed by...

(AP) Two stray cats attacked three people after they got into a house in North Platte. "I thought I had seen it all, but I have never seen anything like this," Chief of Police Martin Gutschenritter said Tuesday. A call for help Monday took animal...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - When the Animal Planet TV network set out to film an episode on bear poaching, producers assumed their most horrifying images would come from remote and unregulated corners of Southeast Asia. They never imagined some of the worst...

What do we do when our compassion doesn't have the results we might have intended? The bidding for the black pony started at $500, then took a nosedive. There were no takers at $300, $200, even $100. With a high bid of just $75, the auctioneer gave the...

PLANT CITY, Fla. (AP) -- Hillsborough County authorities are searching for the person who they say shot a dog in the head. An animal services spokeswoman says a postal worker found the German shepherd mix dog still alive yesterday morning near Keysville...

We are literally eating away at Latin America's primate population. A huge but hitherto unreported escalation in the bushmeat trade is pushing dozens of species of monkeys and other non-human primates to the brink of extinction in South and Central...