Custom Creatures Pet Shop allegedly provided inadequate veterinary care and falsified records, prompting federal intervention.

A Plainfield man has been sentenced after vandalizing the sign in front of a Baptist church in November 2024. Steven James Perkinson, 21, was sentenced to 10 months in prison, followed by three ...

A little-known variant of bird flu has evolved to become better adapted to infecting people and could pose a pandemic threat to humans, a team of researchers has warned.

Animal Partisan and the Humane Farming Association announced that on March 3, 2026, the Buffalo County Circuit Court in Wisconsin found Pure Prairie Poultry (PPP) liable for 30 counts of mistreatment ...

The otherworldly Yang's plateau loach is one of hundreds freshwater fish species described in 2025, new report reveals.

Earth’s vertebrate diversity may be far richer than anyone realized. A sweeping analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every known fish, bird, reptile, amphibian, or mammal species, there ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...

Stephanie Kirsop didn't believe her son when he phoned to say a crocodile was lurking in a creek near their home. The family ...

Roughly 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out to identify and name every living organism on Earth. He described more than 10,000 species of plants and animals prior to his death, per ...

Her son has had allergic reactions to mold before, including itchy eyes and coughing, and the threat of it happening again ...

The late-night television host has at least five species named after him, spanning a remarkably diverse range of creatures. They include a diving beetle ( Agaporomorphus colberti ), a parasitic wasp ( ...