Animals and Wildlife

Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species found in the U.S. and Canada

Botanical gardens and zoos across the country have become go-to destinations for Halloween. The festivities and fun also are a chance to inspire kids and grownups to learn about nature.

A photographer for the Columbus Zoo in Ohio has the inside scoop on how to grow award-winning pumpkins.

A new study published in the Royal Society found that female European common frogs avoid aggressive male frogs during mating season by playing dead.

A Brooklyn man on his way to a wedding in Upstate New York discovered a rodent hitchhiking on the hood of his car.

Officials searched an east Indianapolis neighborhood overnight Wednesday after a Patas monkey named Momo escaped from a nearby house.

The natural spectacle was captured at Caladesi Island Monday morning.

Five flamingos showed up in Wisconsin to wade along a Lake Michigan beach in a historic visit to the state.

Experts say the birds landed in Wisconsin after being diverted by Hurricane Idalia. Wisconsin residents rushed down to Port Washington on Lake Michigan to witness a rare sight.

Dozens of people gathered for the release Friday of 20 more adult tortoises on the property, which is already home to 23 of them as well as dozens of juvenile ones

Colorado Parks and Wildlife said a woman was walking her dog when a cow moose charged, headbutting the hiker and stomping on her before she escaped back down the trail.

The 61-year-old retired firefighter rescued six baby possums after spotting their mother on the road.

The 21-year-old driver was bitten on her upper thigh.

New bodycam video released by the Martin County Sheriff’s Office captured the moments after an Amazon delivery driver was bitten by a “highly venomous” rattlesnake in Florida.

An Amazon delivery driver was hospitalized and in serious condition after she was bitten Monday by a “highly venomous” rattlesnake in Florida, officials said.

A Florida reptile park has taken in an alligator that lost its nose and upper jaw to a fight or boat propeller. Gatorland Orlando said over the weekend that the injured alligator came from a lake in nearby Sanford.

A bear that was spotted in a tree at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom on Monday was captured after the sighting led to part of the park being closed.

Authorities say a wandering bull moose was captured in downtown Santa Fe on Tuesday and relocated to a suitable habitat in northern New Mexico.

A fun day of swimming in Texas turned into a scare when a massive alligator began swimming toward a group of Girl Scouts.

Authorities say a rhinoceros at a zoo in Austria has attacked a married couple working as zookeepers, killing the woman and seriously injuring the man.