BILLINGS, Mont. -- As efforts falter to save North America's largest freshwater fish - a toothless beast leftover from the days of dinosaurs - officials hope to stave off extinction by sending more water hurtling down a river so the fish can spawn in

PLANT CITY, Fla. (AP) -- Seven people have been arrested in a cockfighting raid in Hillsborough County.At least 70 roosters will have to be euthanized.

VICTORIA, Texas -- A $2 million domestic violence facility expected to open next year in Victoria isn't just about helping people. The Women's Crisis Center in Victoria is adding a pet shelter.

Already dangerously rare, Hawaii's akikiki is one of ten already endangered U.S. species that are under added threat from global warming, according to a December 2009 report by the Endangered Species Coalition, an advocacy network based in Washington, D.C

In the black depths of the frigid Arctic Ocean, scientists on a 2005 expedition found a splash of color: The brilliant, blood-red Crossota norvegica jellyfish (pictured).

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MUNCIE -- County Commissioners didn't think long before they rejected a Wednesday offer from Mayor McShurley to let them take over city animal control."She's crazy," Commissioner President Todd Donati told The Star Press. "We are not going to accept that.

Luxury cat-furniture designer The Refined Feline has launched its holiday drive, Feed 500 Felines. The program's goal is to feed 500 shelter cats for 30 days with a donation to 10 shelters!

State prosecutors will not press criminal charges against a Connecticut woman who owned a 200 pound chimpanzee that mauled her friend Charla Nash, leaving her blind and grotesquely disfigured.

Ndeze and Ndakasi are two of four rescued mountain gorilla orphans that the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund has provided specialist care for over the last several years.