It's a tale about a tiger that police in a Texas town are taking seriously. Oyster Creek police are on the lookout for a tiger after reported sightings of a meandering big cat with orange and black stripes in the area about 50 miles south of

From a female Eastern Grey Kangaroo trapped in a sediment pond saved by a reader in Australia to a giraffe adopted at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, readers sent in photos of their rescue animals. Click through for photos of a cat found in a grocery store;

The corrida, or bullfight, has long been a part of Spanish life. But this week the Catalan parliament in Barcelona will consider a proposal to ban it, becoming the first region in of Spain to do so.

A family dog is being credited with helping to save the lives of his human family when they were threatened during a violent home-invasion robbery in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday. Aslan, a 5-year-old boxer mix, apparently alerted his owners to

About 100 starving sled dogs have been seized from a racing business in Colorado. Colorado's state veterinarian says an anonymous tip led authorities to Pawsatrack Racing Sled Dogs in the Park County town of Hartsel, about 70 miles southwest of Denver

Michigan and federal authorities are offering $7,000 for information about the killing of an endangered gray wolf in the western Upper Peninsula. The state Department of Natural Resources said Thursday an anonymous donation has boosted what had been

Fifteen miniature poodle-mix puppies were intercepted by border control agents Monday night as a man allegedly attempted to smuggle them to the U.S. from Mexico. Most of the 2-month-old puppies were found to be suffering from the highly contagious and

President Barack Obama told world leaders Friday they must accept a climate change deal, even if it is imperfect, or risk opening dangerous splits in the fight against global warming.

Over the course of twenty-six years of oil drilling in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, U.S. oil giant Chevron deliberately dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, leaving local people suffering a wave of cancers,

Plans for new skiing areas in the region around the Carpathian Mountains and the Balkans threaten to harm major protected areas that house some of Europe's last remaining untouched wilderness.