Animal Stories

A shipment of honeybees bound from California to Alaska died after an airline re-routed them through Atlanta, then left them to sit on the tarmac during hot weather.

It took three years, a few strangers and the “Andy Griffith Show” theme song to help reunite a Lancaster County family with its missing pet.

Scientists warn that the loss of urchins could be devastating for the broader marine ecosystem.

Passengers on a Horizon Airlines flight bound for Everett, Washington had to spend a few extra minutes on the ground at San Diego International Airport Thursday afternoon.

Research confirms what dog lovers know — every pup is truly an individual. A new study has found that many of the popular stereotypes about the behavior of dogs aren’t supported by science.

A Yorkie whose owner reported him stolen 11 years ago has been found and reunited with his family, police in Stoughton, Massachusetts, said Thursday.

As flames licked his back and hindquarters, one dog made a last desperate leap to safety to escape the fire engulfing a Berks County home.

A man captured video of a wild turkey chasing and attacking him and another woman on a trail in D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood.

The pup’s owner has been with him for the vast majority of his life after adopting him from an animal shelter when he was just a few months old, according to Guinness World Records.

A javelina got trapped in a car in Arizona last week after jumping in to seize a bag of Cheetos, officials said. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office said a deputy responded to a call in Cornville of reports of a wild javelina inside a Subaru station wagon, according to a Facebook post on the department’s page. The deputy learned......

A man who started a 2020 wildfire that killed 12 endangered California condors and seriously injured a firefighter has been convicted of arson.

A mother fox that bit at least nine people near the U.S. Capitol was euthanized and authorities have found and captured her kits, officials told NBC News.

Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) described the moment the fox “nipped” his leg on Monday to NBC News.