Animals & Pets

Marine authorities are puzzling over how to persuade at least one wayward humpback whale to leave a crocodile-infested river in northern Australia.

Every effort to explain the extraordinarily varied course of the novel coronavirus, to treat it with drugs and prevent it with vaccines, depends on understanding how the virus outwits the human immune system — or vice versa.

St. Louis Zoo officials are trying to solve the mystery of how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs without being around a male python for at least two decades.

First documented physical manifestations of extremely low genetic diversity within an isolated population of less than two dozen mountain lions.

The San Diego Humane Society and the San Diego County Department of Animal Services are working to keep animals safe, evacuating them when necessary.

A Georgia sheriff’s deputy delivering civil papers returned to her patrol vehicle to find an eager — and hungry — new driver.

At least seven mountain lions have been captured in Santiago since nighttime curfews began.

Kaavan the elephant, who has languished at a zoo in Pakistani for more than 35 years, is cleared to be moved to an animal sanctuary.

The number of mammoth skeletons recovered at an airport construction site north of Mexico City has risen to 200, with more discoveries expected.

A boom in mountain lion births has occurred this summer in Southern California.

Morro Bay, Calif., a dude ranch in California’s Central Valley and organic farms offer opportunities to interact with animals.

For the second time in a little more than a week, a bear entered a Lake Tahoe Safeway in Kings Beach.