Animal News

A man faces felony animal cruelty charges for allegedly stealing a van in Studio City and then leaving it locked up with a family dog inside, police said.

Activists supporting liberation of all animals from captivity planned to rally in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday.

LAS VEGAS -- Arlo Krutcher was in the middle of a public relations nightmare and it was all over horses.

A 4-month-old kitten is struggling to survive after being intentionally doused with gasoline and set on fire in Sacramento, authorities said.

Hawaii on Thursday continued to investigate a surge in shark attacks, one day after a German tourist died after losing her right arm to a shark, the first such fatality for the islands in a decade.

LAS VEGAS -- The 148 horses stand in corrals outside a rural Nevada auction house, awaiting their fate as a legal battle continues to swirl over whether the animals are domestic horses that can legally go to slaughter or wild mustangs that deserve the government’s protection.

LAS VEGAS -- If those horses don’t have a brand, you can’t sell them.

Sterilizing feral cats without removing their sexual organs would do more to control their population than spaying and neutering, according to a new study.

Hiding out in the treetops of the Andean cloud forest is the furry, fig-chomping olinguito, a mammal that was unknown to science — until now.

“Finding Dory” may be undergoing a sea change as Pixar is taking a page from a little-seen whale documentary.

The Interior Department this week opened to public comment and review its proposal to expand the range of federally protected Mexican wolves.

In another example of how the return of a top predator can have far-reaching ecological effects, researchers have found that the reintroduction of the gray wolf to Yellowstone National Park has boosted an important food source for the threatened grizzly bear.

When it comes to picking peacocks, beauty is in the eye of the peahen.

Frogs living in remote mountain ponds in the Sierra Nevada are ingesting pesticides used to grow crops 50 to 100 miles away in California’s Central Valley, according to a study by government scientists.

A depiction of Glendale’s famous Meatball the Bear will be the centerpiece of the city’s next Rose Parade float, council members decided Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal wildlife officials have moved one step closer to their plan to play referee in a habitat supremacy contest that has pitted two species of owl against one another in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Two men have been charged with more than 100 counts of animal cruelty in connection with a Lake Elsinore breeding facility where thousands of rodents and reptiles had to be euthanized because of the conditions inside.

The world’s most endangered feline species may become extinct in the wild within 50 years, researchers say, a victim of climate change.

As a white car pulled to a stop in the middle of a Huntington Beach street, Eric Hough said to no one in particular: “He’s here.

It’s not surprising hotels are unleashing special perks and menus aimed at dog owners.

A pair of Mexican wolves that had been waiting for their final release into the wild in Arizona are heading back to captivity after federal officials determined that the alpha male of an existing pack behaved aggressively toward them.

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The California Assembly on Thursday approved legislation to protect bobcats from unlimited commercial trapping.

Ever let out a groan, bang your fist or scratch your head in frustration when life didn’t go your way?

My grandmother, who raised some great family dogs, always said that mutts made the smartest and healthiest pets.