animals

As the climate gets hotter, plants could need to move to new habitats. But animals that eat their fruit and help spread the seeds are disappearing.

Jessica and Nikii Gerson-Neeves don't want to end the standoff that has brought joy to so many people. But they also want to use their blender, which has been in a box in their kitchen since December.

Twin panda cubs made their first public appearance before delighted fans in Tokyo but only briefly for now — just for three days — due to a spike in COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant.

Mo the sloth served as the beloved ambassador for the Monroe County Sheriff's Office Animal Farm — a zoo for rescue animals underneath the elevated jail. For farmer Jeanne Selander, providing a haven for animals and access for inmates — and kids — is a life mission.

Just like humans, groups of baboons sometimes break off relations. Scientists have studied the dynamics of such breakups and say baboons tend to split up in a cooperative, egalitarian way.

Sean Doody believes the coronavirus likely came from animals that were illegally trafficked to a wet market in China and it’s only a matter of time before it happens again.

Winter was 16. The female bottlenose dolphin with the prosthetic tail had developed a gastrointestinal abnormality.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing listing the alligator snapping turtle as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

The births will be the first for Menari, zoo officials say. She is expected to give deliver the twins sometime this winter.

Government scientists warn climate change, on top of other pressures, could make such disappearances more common.

The flightless bird with an outsize persona personally greeted thousands of guests in his lifetime and was said to prefer the company of humans over his fellow penguins.

Kabul Small Animal Rescue's American director is raising money to airlift more than 200 dogs and cats, the group's staff and their families before foreign troops leave at the end of the month.