Despite a rough beginning, a beluga whale was born early Monday morning at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago

Beginning next month, some swift foxes in north-central Montana will be hitching a ride to new accommodations on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

Disguises and aliases might seem like the stuff of spy movies, but real-world scientific sleuths have rediscovered an "extinct" bird living under a false name and wearing a mask.

ST. LOUIS - The authorities seized more than 400 dogs on Wednesday and charged 26 people from seven states in what officials called one of the largest crackdowns on dogfighting in the United States...

A pet Burmese python measuring more than 8 feet long broke out of a terrarium and strangled a 2-year-old girl in her bedroom...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A small herd of bison from Yellowstone National Park will be moved to Wyoming's Wind River Reservation next month, part of a fledgeling effort to spare some of the animals from a government-sponsored slaughter program...

Some years ago, two well-meaning US citizens, a husband and wife, adopted a baby chimpanzee. They brought him up as if he was a child. When he got too big he was re-homed to a refuge and they visited him almost every birthday. Some years later the

A seal has astonished staff at a marine sanctuary at Hunstanton in north Norfolk by refusing to feed on fish.Heidi, a five-week-old pup, was rescued from Heacham beach in Norfolk after she was separated from her mother. She was taken to Hunstanton Sea

Swimming on their backs on a recent afternoon, Nellie and Abra would have no reason to imagine the tasty shrimp they're snacking on came not from the ocean, but from the Arizona desert. Yet for the sea otters' keepers at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium,

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