A restraining order restricted wolf hunting and trapping in the state.

Scores of turtles, lizards and frogs are being decimated by the pet trade.

Scores of turtles, lizards and frogs are being decimated by the pet trade.

Reintroducing grey wolf populations to the wild has been a controversial topic.

Don’t accuse the TSA of catnapping on the job

Pigs' grunts reveal how they're feeling, new analysis says.

Tuan Tuan, one of two giant pandas gifted to Taiwan from China as a symbol of hoped-for reunion between the sides, has died

Alaska wildlife officials say a black bear cub in southeast Alaska was euthanized after it became ill with avian influenza

After chimpanzee Mahale gave birth via C-section, her baby had to stay at the hospital for extra medical care. Nearly 48 hours later, mom and baby reunited at the Sedgwick County Zoo.

A bear broke into a parked van in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and got away with a tasty snack.

Backyard bandits: A security camera captured a raccoon and an opossum helping themselves to some cat food.

The New Jersey Fish and Game Council voted on Tuesday to reinstate the state's black bear hunt despite controversy.

A reporter tried (and failed) to keep a straight face as a curious baby elephant interrupted his on-air reporting.

An elephant named Kindani got her 15 minutes of fame when she used her trunk to photobomb a young reporter at an elephant orphanage outside Nairobi, Kenya.

A sheriff says vandalism freed thousands of mink at a rural northwest Ohio farm, leaving an estimated 10,000 of the small carnivorous mammals unaccounted for as of Tuesday evening

Two jaguar cubs and their mother have been released into Argentina's Ibera National Park—where the species had been previously driven to extinction.

The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago's beloved beluga “Mauyak” has died.

Friends were celebrating a birthday trip to South Africa when two baboons walked into the event after a door was left open.

What's more adorable than these kangaroos at the San Antonio Zoo? Kangaroos munching on their favorite snacks.

Veterans struggling with mental health after returning home build healing relationships with their service dogs.

Cicadas have been blamed for causing a car crash, delaying a plane and interrupting newscasts as they reemerged after 17 years underground.

Scientists at Polar Bears International are using cutting edge technology to save the polar bear population.

It’s an annual tradition in Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley: Drivers wait patiently as local ranchers herd their cattle from summer pastures down to lower altitudes, where the winter weather is milder.

Scores of turtle species are under threat from poaching

The owner of a Shetland pony measuring a mere 19.6 inches in height hopes the animal will make it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s smallest pony.

The bear attack occurred Wednesday evening at a Vermont condominium complex in Winhall near Stratton Mountain Resort, in the Green Mountains.

Skipper, the Australian shepherd, introduced himself to a pair of humpbacks during a whale-watching excursion off the coast of California.

Animal lover Berkley Cameron is hoping her run in the New York City Marathon will help raise money for animals in need.

Whatever you did today, it wasn't as much fun as watching these two squirrels go waterskiing.

A developer is asking a judge to allow it to scale back a project by 80%.

Find someone who cares about what you like to do as much as this seal cares about playing fetch with this dog.

A U.S. Grand National horse won $155,000 in prize money before returning home to Ireland. His trainer brought him to a bar to celebrate.

A resourceful bear helped itself to a pumpkin from a porch in Watertown, Connecticut.

A venomous 2.2-meter  (7 foot) king cobra that escaped from its home in a Swedish zoo has returned back home by itself, bringing a happy ending to over a week-long disappearance saga

A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 13,560 kilometers (8,435 miles) from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania

The decline of an endangered species of whale slowed last year.

This 12-year-old Schnauzer named Liebs clearly has no fear of bears.

A polar bear used any means necessary to safely traverse sheets of ice, fascinating a watching Arctic tourist.

Elmer the porcupine makes some feisty new friends as he strolls past the lion enclosure at the San Antonio Zoo.

Rescuers helped cut loose a humpback whale that got caught in the ropes of a large buoy off the coast of British Columbia.

A moose wandered onto the pitch in Jackson, Wyoming, sending youth soccer players – and their parents — running for safety.

A “swift-footed lizard” that lived millions of years ago in what's now Massachusetts has been named the state’s official dinosaur

Authorities rescued nearly 300 rabbits, birds and other animals from a filthy home in New York

Environmentalists are pushing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to do more to protect Mexican gray wolves after one of the endangered predators was found dead in southwestern New Mexico

Four college wrestlers say they are grateful to be alive -- and for each other -- after going toe-to-toe with a grizzly bear in Wyoming over the weekend.

A legal battle over an endangered toad and a geothermal power plant in Nevada has many similarities to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark case on the Endangered Species Act nearly a half-century ago

Just when you think you’ve become accustomed to the spotted lanternfly invasion, along comes another menace to the ecosystem

Two Wyoming college wrestlers were seriously injured when they were ambushed in a gruesome attack by a grizzly bear while hunting over the weekend.

Two Wyoming college wrestlers have been seriously injured when they were ambushed in a gruesome attack by a grizzly bear while hunting over the weekend.

A 10-year-old was mauled by a bear while playing in his grandparents’ backyard in Connecticut, with the bear dragging the child away before it finally let go.