Animals and Wildlife

A police department in Colorado got a bizarre call that led them to a “high-speed chase” of a fugitive on Thursday morning: A runaway pet Kangaroo.

The Burmese pythons have such large gapes because their lower jawbones are not fused at the front, and their skin is especially elastic.

A loggerhead sea turtle is back in the ocean following months of rehabilitation.

The bear known as Grizzly 399 was killed Tuesday evening after being hit by a car in Wyoming, according to officials.

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy said they haven’t yet been able to identify a cause of death for the great white shark, but shared its name.

Officials began an operation in Hollywood to save a deer that appears to have a bone stuck in its mouth and throat.

Police shared photos of a great white shark that washed ashore in Orleans, Massachusetts, that look like they come right out of “Jaws.” (Note: the photos may be too graphic for some viewers.)

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Editor’s note: Some readers might find the images included in this story disturbing. Orleans police shared three photos of the shark on Facebook on Tuesday, showing the dead shark on the back of a flatbed truck. “Not one of our typical calls for service,” the department said. “Not is it one for our local duty tow, Nauset Recovery. But, as...

A Washington state woman called 911 after her home was swarmed by masked intruders, aka scores of hungry raccoons.

In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday by defeating the male behemoth that killed her cub this summer.

A 74-year-old Colorado man was injured in his home by a black bear after the animal and its three cubs opened a partially cracked sliding glass door, authorities said.

It turns out a viral video of Nibi the beaver building a dam helps explain why Massachusetts’ governor is letting her stay at Newhouse Wildlife Rescue.

The spotted lanternfly continues to pop up in Massachusetts.

More than a dozen tigers have died after contracting bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam.

Turns out, Nibi the beaver won’t have to learn how to live in the wild on its own after all.

Voting has started in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve.

The story of Nibi the beaver, who’s been in the care of Newhouse Wildlife Rescue, has captivated many, and when Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey heard the animal was being ordered released into the wild, over protests that Nibi has no family or survival skills, she intervened....

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Jasper and his “Irish twin” sister, Ruby, are the first mandrills to be born at the zoo since 1995.

Even some universities have tried out herds of goats and sheep on campus property. Here’s why.

A zoo in Finland has agreed to return two loaned giant pandas to China eight years early because they are too expensive for the facility to maintain.