Basketball star Shaquille O'Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl after being moved by national news coverage of the case of Shaniya Davis, who police say was kidnapped and killed

Every five years, the village of Bariyapur located in Nepal, along with India, hosts one of the biggest animal slaughters in the world. During the event well over 300,000 animals, including birds, buffaloes, goats, and sheep are killed.

Seven undercover investigations have exposed horrific HLS abuse: Technicians push naso-gastric tubes into dogs' lungs, drowning them. Animals dangling from slings or cowering in cages

A Maple Grove man beat his girlfriend's cat so badly that it had to be euthanized. And three other cats in the home mysteriously disappeared. Now he's going to spend 30 days in jail to think about the poor kitten who is probably still crying after he put

Adrian Tierney-Jones looks at the controversial practice of branding Exmoor's beautiful wild ponies

Florida wildlife officials are urging boaters to be on the lookout for manatees that are migrating to warmer waters for the winter.

On one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two.

Grizzly Jack's Grand Bear Resort in Utica, Ill., has been regularly hosting Brown's Oakridge Exotics (BOE), a business that hauls exotic animals to various venues for display and charges the public to have photos taken with tiger cubs and other baby

U.S. President Barack Obama has urged the military rulers of Burma to release pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

The annual Leonid meteor shower will make its one-night appearance over North America tonight. Viewing conditions should be excellent because the peak will occur after midnight, when the lights of metropolitan areas will be at